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 21 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 21 of 164

Paradisiotissa 18-19/6 1930. In Kostas's field just above the spring in Paradisiotissa many years ago found a relative of Michalis a statue representing a priest with a long beard, and when one examined it one could impossibly see that anything had been broken or damaged on it. The statue was large equal to a man and it came up by chance during ploughing. It was so long ago that no one understood how to dig for several statues in the same place. Who had foreknowledge of such things at that time? and ever since then the field had lain untouched. The story seems in the highest degree probable especially as a couple of statue pieces already have been found by Alfiros in the field f below for a couple of years ago. In Kostas's field lies f evidently a house or similar from late classical times (judging by the pottery) in ruins. The house has been covered with thick roof tiles which … continues

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