Field diary DII:1a, Lapithos, Vrysi tou Barba, p. 22 (1927)

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… the original one, the northern one cut later as shown by the threshold profiles.

DrawingTwo cross-section profiles of thresholds

1. The southern one, namely, has the usual sloping doorway profile 2. The northern one is clearly cut from above later, when the chamber in its entirety was finished. At the opening of this doorway, which does not seem to have been accompanied by any new burial, the destruction in the chamber has been brought about. The problem remains, however: why was doorway no. 2 ever opened? The following vessels are taken out

56.	Red Pol. hemisph. bowl		diam	8.7
57	— ” — ” — Red Pol. hemisph. bowl	incised	— ” — diam	10.5.
58	— ” — Red incised jug		height	8.5
59	— ” — Red hemisph. bowl		diam	9.2
60	— ” — ” — Red hemisph. bowl	incised	diam	11.2
61	— ” — Red incised jug		height	14.7
62	— ” — ” — Red incised bowl	damaged	diam	10.0
63	— ” — Red hemisph — 〃 —		diam	9.6

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