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 90 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 90 of 164

Rum 63Room 63 is still almost entirely hidden beneath the railway track, which is run through here. It has well-preserved walls and communicates through gateways with rooms 34 and 64. This latter gateway, however, ends blindly against a stairway, which at some point was apparently taken into use when a wall was built as a reinforcing wall ? behind (south-west of) wall 64-66. No finds have yet been made in room 63, whose description is postponed.

Rum 66Room 66 lies southwest of 35 and is connected to it only through a doorway, in direct connection with this room alone. Roughly where find 337 was made, a section drawing is noted across the room. Closest to the well-preserved cement floor lies a 0,40 m (= rasade wall height) thick layer of red earth containing numerous pieces of a gypsum-bearing cement with imprints of reed. These pieces are found in large quantity closest to the floor, especially next to wall 66-64. They obviously derive from the room's collapsed roof. Immediately … continues

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