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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 50 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).

Unnumbered pageScan 50 of 178

[(drawing) [page number: 53]]

6 Bronze axelength 11.4
7 Bronze dagger } connected with clearlength 18.5
8 Bronze scraper } traces of wooden handlelength 14.5
9 Bronze tweezers (broken)length 12.9
10 Bronze tool with horn handle (damaged)length c. 17
11 Bronze swordlength 66.4
12 Bronze swordlength 53.8
13 Bronze swordlength 55.8
14 Narrow bronze swordlength 53.4
15 Bronze tweezerslength 9.5
16. Bronze scraperlength 13.4
17 Bronze knife (bad patina)length 22.5
19 Bronze scraperlength 14.0
20 Bronze knifelength 24.2

Find nos. 2-12 were all deposited around a male skeleton on the eastern part of the chamber floor . The bones are extremely softened and crumble at the slightest touch. Nevertheless it can be established from the sparse remains that the body had sat with its face towards the entrance and its left side against the wall (crossed thigh bones and … continues

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