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 93 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 93 of 164

Vouní Spring 1929.

366.367388.Under a walk over the Vouní area it was established that this year the winter rains' passage was very difficult, especially on the slopes down towards the sea (Loures) and in the direction of Petra (north-west). Here a quantity of washed-out pottery was observed, on the north-west slopes mostly painted Cypriot Classical (Red Slip Ware) while in Loures coarse pithos ditto. In Loures roughly at the middle was found in a dry water-course a fragment of a Sphinx statuette l 8,5 cm 366 further, under the Haroupia tree a Bronze pendant l 3,5 cm and a few days later up at the temple court in a drying puddle a silver coin with Athena head diam 1,4 cm 388 — With the exception of the begun layer excavation in room 53 the actual excavation has not noticeably been damaged by the winter rains. The squares whose excavation was begun here are entirely filled with water and the section edges and base coated with clay. All- … continues

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