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 134 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).

Unnumbered pageScan 134 of 178

List continued from p. 22

12 Bronze knife olength 16.5

Moreover were taken out

13 Red Pol. incised jugheight 17.7

A well-preserved femur lay in the middle of the fill. Without connection to the other skeletal remains, it is consolidated with plaster and called skeleton no. 1

Chamber δ, continued.

Strangely enough there is no real human skeleton in the tomb. Only 5–6 pcs. of bone fragments lie in and around the southern niche. At the middle of the back wall lie just as much remains of a dog.

Chamber α.

10–16/11 The chamber is gradually freed from the fill; the roof shows itself to have collapsed again in the middle of the chamber so much that the whole rock is partly destroyed. Therefore the tomb is opened from above the ground surface

Cont. p. 163

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