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 123 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).

Unnumbered pageScan 123 of 164

Continued from p. 93

Room 104… the same purpose as the rooms mentioned The room complex is detached from the rest of the palace and probably had its entrances from below. It is limited in its extent. The rooms are numbered 103 – 106. In the excavation of the middle of these rooms, several pieces of a larger terracotta head were already found in the surface layer. All the earth is sieved and several pieces are found in the western parts of the room. Pieces were found in particular at the level 0,50 m above the stone bench. The pieces are joined to form a rather fine head:

517.Painted terra-cotta head dam.

In the western corner there was found standing on the stone bench in situ:

518Lower part of a terra cotta statue Pieces

Without any doubt the two parts belong to the same statue, for some pieces of the head had fallen down and … continues

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