Field diary·DII:1a·1927

Lapithos, Vrysi tou BarbaErik Sjöqvist

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 107 of field diary DII:1a (Lapithos, Vrysi tou Barba), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:1a, Public domain (CC0).

Page 11Scan 107 of 178

List continued from p. 11

13 Red Pol. jug height 35.7

14 Black Pol. incised jug damaged height 13.2

15 Red Pol. amphora height 31.8

16 — 〃 — incised jug badly damaged

17 — 〃 — jug badly damaged (in packet)

18 — 〃 — — 〃 — — 〃 — — 〃 —

20 Red Pol. hemisph. bowl damaged

19 Black Pol. incised jug damaged height 16

21 Red Pol. hemisph. bowl damaged

On the south part of the chamber floor lie the remains of a child's skeleton in an unfathomable position (Skeleton no. 1), at its north on a pair of huge pithos sherds another (no. 2), likewise belonging to a not fully grown person. At the middle of the back wall lie four leg bones of slight structure, probably belonging somewhat to skeletons 1 or 2. This tomb stamm ar is evidently similar to tomb no. 8 a child's tomb. Like that one it entirely lacks bronzes - the only two tombs in the whole series - … continues

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