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 135 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 137Scan 135 of 178

10/11Chamber a is large and well built and provided with a large niche facing east. A general roof collapse has taken place over the whole chamber, whose find layer is covered by a ½-m-deep chavara layer.

11/11The collapse layer is removed and the fine clearing begins; the chamber is drawn and the following vessels are taken out.

1. Black Pol. incised jug damagedheight c. 10
2 Red Pol. incised miniature jug damaged
3 — " — cup damagedheight 7.8
4 Black Pol. miniature jug— ” — height 7.1
5 Red Pol. flat bowldiam 9.4
6 Black Pol. incised min. jugheight 8.5
7 — " — — " — spindle whorldiam 4.9
8. Red Pol. incised bowl damaged (in packet

Beside find no. 8 lay large remains of charcoal. It is likely to be a highly advanced weathering rather than real traces of fire.

9 Red Pol. deep bowldiam 9.4
10 — " — hemisph. — " —— ” — diam 12.8
11 — " — — " — — " —— ” — diam 8.0

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