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 149 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 151 aScan 149 of 178

In the compound lay remains of a skeleton (no. 2) together with the finds 130-143. Everything except the bronzes is dissolved by the clay and the vessels are like red earth. Some can be saved some go irretrievably under.

144 Bronze pin length 15.4

q In the middle of the whole soup lay a 10-tal glass-paste beads that are completely softened. They are drawn in and taken out and become no.

145 Glass paste beads

17/11The rest of the vessels are taken out

146 Red Pol. amphora damaged height c. 16

147 — " — hemisph. bowl diam 14.9

148 — " — jug badly damaged (in 1 box + 1 packet)

the rest of skeleton no. 2 lay beneath the bones already taken up from the chamber floor. There is a knee and the remains of an arm, all suggesting a crouched burial.

149.Red Pol. jug badly damaged (1 box, 1 packet)

150 — " — amphora height 15.9

151 — " — flat bowl diam 20.8

Hereby the tomb is empty. In its entirety

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