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 154 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 22Scan 154 of 178

Continued from p. 22

… the western part contains a decimetre-deep compact layer with sherds mixed together with slurried clay; remarkably many fragments of animal bone, also up in the niches. A well-preserved human skull is plastered (skeleton no. 1). It lay in the vicinity of a femur in the eastern half of the chamber, on the floor. The ring[a] few preserved vessels are drawn in and lifted

14ARed Pol. bowl w. spoutdiam 16.3
15ABronze knife} in same boxlength 14.0
16Bronze tweezers—”— length 11.2
172 pcs lead-silver ringdiam 2.4
18Red Pol. bowl w. spout—”— diam 10.7
194 pcs spindle whorlsdiam 4.0 x 4.3
20Red Pol. bottle damagedheight 26
21Whetstonelength 14.2
22Red Pol. incised jug damagedheight 15,5
23—”— Red hemisph. bowldiam 13.6
24—”— Red jug w. cutaway neckheight 23.0
25—〃— beaked jug, badly damaged (in box
26—”— —〃— hemisph. bowl

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