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 78 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 78 of 164

Continued from p. 47

… beside wall 53-58. The northernmost

is 7 cm high (315) and the southern315
8 cm high (316). — However, the floor level316.

It is broken through at a point where the floor is dis turbed by a trench which touches the section line and lies northwest of it. The trench, which is c. 0,50 m by 1 m in size, is driven straight down towards the rock. Square A. The finds are collected in 20 cm levels counted from the floor level. These levels are thus entirely artificial and have nothing to do with the natural layers in the earth, which later become clear in the section, and which will determine the excavation method in the continuation of the level excavation. In square A (the trench now described) there is found in the first level 0,10 - 0,30 m below the floor:

Red-figured sherd l 4,7 cm317
Foot of a terracotta statuette h 6,1 cm318
Handle of bronze bowl l 8,5 cm319

Same square's second level 0,30 - 0,50 m

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