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Saturday 1 October 1966
After various discussions, I decide to make the indispensable excursion to the famous excavations of the German Mission at Samos, on the religious site of the Heraion, in the southern plain of the island, at the edge of the sea, a few kilometres west of the ruins of the ancient Greek archaic city of Samos (in the time of the tyrant Polycrates VIè s. av J.C). This visit to the excavations of the Heraion ends, on the plane that interests us, that of the pre-Classical levels, contemporary with the sanctuary of Enkomi 63, with a half-failure: indeed, a proliferating vegetation of reeds and plants of marshy areas, m'
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain