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 71 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 41Scan 71 of 164

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~~[?Pma… sontellt layer is found. In the natural depressions in the rock the usual dark brown sterile bottom-earth and between this rock surface's level and the dark deposit lies an insignificant layer of the same grey earth fill as described above in room 24. In this fill lay insignificant coarse pithos pottery The investigation of room 30 has been made difficult by a rail line here running under almost the whole palace excavation. It should in this connection be noted that ~~] in wall 30-7 an edge-set stone of practical reasons has been removed, which shows that this wall too had box construction though probably only to an insignificant height. The width of the doorway in the same wall is uncertain. Some from the surrounding walls collapsed ashlar blocks were found just as little in the room in question as in the neigh- … continues

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