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 14 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 2Scan 14 of 178

Continued from p. 13

… thin (greatest thickness 12 cm, smallest 7 cm-and covered a recessed tetragonal door. This was photographed, and otherwise drawn and photographed progressively. The chamber y was entirely preserved.

The chamber y.

The clearing continued and then the vessels that lay on top of the skeleton had their positions pricked in with wooden pegs, each with its respective number .

1.Large Red Polished jug 61 cm high

2.Large ditto with two handles (48,5 cm high)

3.Black hemisph. bowl (damaged) diam. 17 cm.

4.Large Red Polished jug (broken) height. 5 ditto (somewhat damaged) height 52.5 cm

6.Small incised Red Pol. jug. height 14.5 cm

7.Black hemisph. bowl diam 15 cm 8. 2 pcs incised spindle whorls

The skeleton is extremely badly damaged; the femur and shinbone lie parallel … continues

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