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6th j. f.Wednesday, 16 OctoberGrey, with breaks of sunshine, a few drops, without stopping work: We begin 2nd tr. N to S bat. 18, east region. - But the finishing of the previous trench continues. I push everywhere down to the rock, so as not to leave tombs unnoticed; not only in the hope of finding intact ones, but to clarify their relation with the buildings aboveground. - Work advances slowly partly because of the tangle of walls and of the hollows and looted tombs to be emptied, but even more because of the slowness of the workmen and of the system of working in pairs.
Pt. 43at 1 m 75, east extr., trench B in ashy earth layer, later than the Mycenaean cylinder engraved stone grey (steatite?), three figures standing in sequence, between each a stylised tree which is held by the men. who wear false beards (drawing) Style faithful to the cylinders of the XIIth-XIth c.,
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain