Field diary·DII:3c·1928–1930

Petra tou Limniti and VouniAlfred Westholm

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 106 of field diary DII:3c (Petra tou Limniti and Vouni), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:3c, Public domain (CC0).

Page 79Scan 106 of 164

four arrowheads with tang. iron454.
Base of a limestone statuette l 8 cm456
Alabastron l 14 cm457
Pieces of alabastra (in the riddles)458

these later too exclusively from the black-layer. Δρόμος and σπήλαιον are excavated fully-continuously, whereby all earth from all layers is sieved. The pit is afterwards filled with other earth so that the floor level becomes even.

Rum 75.Room 75, the north-easternmost of the magazines in this row, has earlier, in connection with trial trench 1, partly been subject to excavation, whereby in the southern corner a large-mouthed pithos was found in situ. In room 75 the earth is the same as in the other magazines. However, a difference is observed. Closest to the floor, especially in the vicinity of the north-eastern wall, there is a c 0,10 m thick burnt layer, completely black in colour. In this layer no finds are admittedly made, but certainly in the bägard earth above. This largely homogeneous earth appears from the slope lines … continues

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain