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 127 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 127 of 164

Continued from p. 97

… come to lie between this and the fire layer, whereby they have been blackened.

Rum 87.Also in room 87 some statue finds are at last made. Here a small deposit in situ was in fact found, standing against the south-west wall in a dark beige-coloured layer, which was prepared forward:

Lower part of a limestone statuetteh 15 cm532
” ” ” Lower part of statue” h 68 cm533
” ” ” ” Lower part of statue” h 42 cm534
Limestone statueh c 60 cm535
Limestonestatuetteh 25 cm536

The statues were dissolved to an extreme degree by damp and could not in any part have been saved without saponite lacquer. The highest parts of 532 - 534 must also be supplemented. The soil conditions are as follows: closest to the floor a 20 - 60 cm thick layer of red-brownish beige earth without stones and hard. In this layer the statue- … continues

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