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 108 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 108 of 178

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… and remarkably not a single painted vessel occurs. From an architectural point of view it must of course be the case that the side chamber was contemporary with or younger than the frontal chamber, which in this case held as many as 9 painted vessels. The conclusion becomes: the tomb in its entirety is from a very early M.C.I when painted pottery was still a costly rarity, too fine to be deposited in a child's grave. Two deposition chambers exist, but both without cover stones and finds loose

Tomb 19

The dromos is unusually small and oriented in the usual way north-south. Its fill was homogeneous and held coarse Red Polished pottery and some hard-fired flaked prob. f.d. painted ditto. It has three chambers which as usual are named from east to west: α, β & γ

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