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 72 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 72 of 164

Continued from p. 41

Room 31.… lying. No finds are made. Room 31 is of the same character as 30. The soil conditions are shown by a longitudinal section drawn through the whole room-met. The rock is uneven, but the earth exceeds 0,60 m in depth only in the vicinity of wall 7-31. Beneath the usual dark surface layer there follows the same grey earth fill as in room 30. In the rock-hollows, red sterile bottom earth. In the vicinity of the room's door toward room 7 in wall (7-31) insignificant remains of harder clay are traced in horizontal layers, which must of course be connected with the flooring. No direct floor level can, however, be determined, since the highest of these layers lies at a considerably lower level than the ohuggna rock elsewhere in the room's other parts. Possibly the horizontal clay layers may be understood as floor substructures or … continues

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