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 32 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 32 of 164

profile a)Room 14 was previously cut by trial trench 1, and the section description from here is therefore given more briefly. For the part that falls within room 14, the section is called a). (On the trial trench drawing from the 10th to the 27th metre.) Here one distinguishes, (beneath the ever-present dark surface layer), mainly two layers that run horizontally. The upper one is made up of red (dark) mudbricks that fell down from the walls in room 1 and 40, probably also down the stairs from the rooms on the courtyard's south-western side. Before this dark layer, which also contains lighter mudbrick fragments, had formed, there had meanwhile been another layer consisting of highly dissolved light mudbrick or rather light grey earth. Next to the wall towards room 15 a clear collapse direction is visible towards the centre of the courtyard. At this place the bottom layer also rises right up to the top of the wall beneath the surface layer. Since rooms 1 and 15 have also an upper storey of mudbrick and … continues

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