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 23 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 23 of 164

A more beautiful site for a small temple cannot be imagined Already before the start of the excavation is found on the surface

1.Fragment of a classical stone-head h 11 cm

TempelRum 1Wall 3A trench is laid out in a north-south direction It cuts through a house with 3 rooms whose floors lie at mutually different levels. Highest lies room 1, whose floor is completely disturbed. The unworked rock was found at level c 1,20. Room 1 has clear boundary walls to the south and west. Toward the east all traces of wall have been swept away. To the north the boundary wall mot to room 2 has stood. Of this wall 1-2 now actually remains only the inner small-stone filling between the edge-set ashlar blocks, which are now gone. It appears to have been a shell wall or a box wall of the same kind as in the palace at Vouni. Of the ashlar stones a couple of remnants are preserved on the north side in room 2. A projecting outcrop of rock in the middle of … continues

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