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 58 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 58 of 164

Continued from p. 27

… giving walls. Beneath the floor level which is not marked by any proper level the earth consists of fill layers, nearest the floor one of yellow rotten clay earth and under this a more gravelly layer, light red and containing abundant pottery. In the very corner point here is found 10 cm above the rock two large sherds of a red-figured amphora (Herakles er-receives the apples of the Hesperides?) This find which was made already in April 1928 has number 119 - . The sherd find is interesting because it determines room 7 a as a later addition to the palace The fill earth under the floor in room 7 a has evidently been taken from neighbouring parts of room 7. Here there are in fact still a couple of sherds from the same vessel in a layer which is to be described under section 2). The sherds can be dated to the time c. 470 B.C. and their find spot indicates them as older than the floor in room 7 a. How the cobble- … continues

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