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 129 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 129 of 164

Continued from p. 99

… lies in the direction of the back slope. (see field map!)

Λούρες IΣπίτι 1At Loures I, a larger rectangular house appears to be visible on the ground surface. A looters' hole in the vicinity indicates that the earth is quite deep. In the upper part of the trench the rock was found at about 1 m depth. At the 2dra metre a slight wall is found, and below it the rock is cut down to a depth of 3 m from the ground surface. Here lies a particularly well laid cement floor of entirely the same character as the floor in palace room 14. This floor extends as far as the 6tte metre in the trench, where in the steep slope it comes up to the ground surface. The room with The room with the well-preserved cement floor, which has been cut through here by the trench, is called Λούρες I σπίτι 1 at the collecting of the pottery. In the same way as in palace room 14, here two angled stone ridges sunk into the floor (see plan drawing). In one of them stands a column base, which looks like this: On a i … continues

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