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 87 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 87 of 164

Continued from p. 57

… a. Further to the north-east there is probably an m. a, almost parallel section which was made in connection with trial trench 9, and since this section has been allowed to stand and dry for half a year the different colours of the earth here have become better differentiated. From the wall towards room 23 there is noticed here an oblique collapse layer of the same character as the lower lighter one in section b. Above this extends a washed-down layer of decomposed, dark mudbrick. This layer has a very irregular shape and possibly before the last light mudbrick layer came to been subjected to disturbance from above. The dark layer is, however, the most interesting in room 34. It is in fact the same layer and the same earth as previously excavated in room 16. As there, finds of bronzes are also made here in 34: At a level of 0,70 cm from the floor … continues

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