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 44 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 44 of 164

Continued from p. 13

286287… Red-Polished bottom layer's time. In the cement floor were had been sunk thick ashlar slabs in the form that the plan shows. They are, however, preserved in the western and eastern diagonal corners. In the stone edges are inserted raised column bases on which the column's cross-sectional form can clearly be read. They have the form of truncated ellipses (drawing). The actual ... of which no certain trace has been found, has been stabilised by molten lead which was found in situ in both places. Among the stones beside the smaller stele (see above) there lay a carved stone fragment which possibly may be a part of such a column. The stone's base plate seems namely to fit into the truncated ellipse. — In connection with the excavations on the large cement courtyard some finds are made. In the earth from the courtyard's centre, unknown from which layer, is found a spindle whorl of terracotta (diam 4 cm) 286. and a loom weight of stone diam 8 cm = 287. The larger stele was found … continues

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