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 134 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).

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… cobble wall at right angles to the others. The cobble wall is thus cut lengthways and ends at 20,50 m. This wall bounds another room with a rock floor 0,30 m lower than the most recently mentioned cement floor. This new room extends forward to a wall at 23,70 m. In the room some finds were made. 0,15 cm above the floor, over a burnt layer resting on it, was found

Painted limestone statuette (except the head) l. 15 cm545.

Somewhat deeper in the black burnt layer the exceptionally beautiful head was found. Further on, level with the statuette and right beside it in the trench wall

Sitting female terra-cotta statuette h 12 cm546
— ” — ” — Sitting female h. 11 cm547

The head of one was found later in the sieve. Diagonally beneath these statue-finds stood in situ (?) the following clay vessels (see photo).

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