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 99 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 99 of 164

Continued from p. 71

… the boundary between the dark and the light brown fill, on the other hand, lie 400 and 401. 406 and 407 lie beneath the light brown fill on the rock bottom. This was now the grouping of the finds within the excavated area. The concentration is strongly northwesterly, and since hardly any new finds can be expected in squares A4 - C4, the removal of the floor (58) is confined to this. In the clearing of the floor in 58 further finds are made:

Fragment of a rider limestone l 24 cm A4451

beside the wall toward 53 - The earth in room 58 is above the floor homogeneous grey, like the that is found in the whole southern corner of the palace and under the Haroupio tree.

~~[?75The northeastern parts of the palace contain a row of storerooms ~~] whose numbering from west to east is 71-75. Room 73 thus lies in the middle of these five. All the storeroom-rooms are built in a similar way and with the exception of certain deviations … continues

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