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 20 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 20 of 178

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… lay remains of a skeleton together with a single vessel (no. 22). On the floor below the niche lay other scanty remains of a skeleton (chest and an upper arm bone) The remaining vessel was taken out:

52.Black Pol. incised jug; damaged (in box) height c. 12.5.

The grave floor is cleared and the skeletal remains are packed up All the finds are Early Cypriote III Chamber a is opened, cleared, photographed, drawn and levelled in by hand. The vessels are taken out and numbered in the following order:

1.Red Pol. jugheight 52 cm
2.” ” Red Pol. damaged.impossible to measureon tomb
3.Red Pol. jug large somewhat damagedheight 56,5on tomb
4.” ” ” Red Pol. jug large somewhat damaged” height 62,5
5.” ” Red Pol. damagedheight c. 50
6.Black-on-Red hemisph. bowldiam 15 cm
7.Red Pol jug largeheight 48 cm
8.Red Pol. incised 2 handled jugheight 37 cm
9.Red Pol " bowldiam 12
10.” Red large jugheight 52.5
11." bowl badly damaged (cardboard box)

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