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 62 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 62 of 164

Continued from p. 31

Profil g.… from the wall, a vertically sharply marked layer of dark red earth containing some stones. The layer extends all the way down to the rock. Between this lager lager and wall 7 - 7a there appear the substructions of a water channel which, beneath the floor of room 7 a, runs genom down through the wall towards room 7. On the other side the channel emerges in 7 a. Section f ends against wall 7 - 7a,. The intersection of this and the layers in room 7 is called section g. For reasons of excavation practice this section is not taken at right angles to the rest of the section system but in the direction of the cistern in room 7. Wall 7 - 7a, which in reality is 0,70 m broad, thus becomes obliquely cut. Outside the wall the earth fill is mixed with largely horizontal levels of gypsum debris which in the section appear as thin streaks. Otherwise the fill consists of light gravel

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