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 49 of field diary DII:1a (Lapithos, Vrysi tou Barba), handwritten in Swedish, with drawings. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:1a, Public domain (CC0).

Page 13Scan 49 of 178

Small oblong object with a pointed end
DrawingSmall oblong object with a pointed end

the roof of the chamber's middle but the niches are well preserved. The clearing is begun. No slammed clay fill is present and everything appears to lie in situ. As wedge stones for the actual door-packing served inter alia a grindstone (see small finds ledger no. 5). During continued clearing it is established that the roof collapse in the chamber was very extensive but that it took place gradually and without leaving any stratigraphic sequence. Throughout, the same crumbled rock. In the stomion itself a few small grains of yellow ochre were found. Cf. tomb 2 y! The find layer is covered by a foot-deep layer of roof collapse fill

21/10The clearing is continued and all the roof collapse is removed over the whole floor surface

22/10The following bronzes were taken out

1Spindle whorldiam. 5.5
2Bronze daggerlength 20.6
3Bronze pin with bone shaftlength 9.8
4Bronze axelength 9.5
5Bronze band (coiled

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