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 33 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).

Page 3Scan 33 of 164

Continued from scan 32

section b)… red ones it seems unavoidable that the upper storey was built of lighter mudbrick and that this first collapsed down. Thereafter have the uppermost parts of the lower storey collapsed down over this lighter layer whereupon the diligent farmers have begun their destruction. It is probable that the boundary between the light and dark part of the wall is marked by the roof, which is supported by the column in wall 14. — Half a metre north-east of the gateway in wall 1 another section roughly parallel to the former and at right angles to wall 1-14. This section shows a similar though more complicated sequence of layers. Nearest wall 1-14 the deepest observed is the same light mudbrick layer as in section a). Its upper edge boundary is marked by a line from a point situated c. 30 cm below the crest of wall 1-14 to the nearest edge of the south-eastern stone edging.

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