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 59 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 59 of 178

Continued from p. 13

… in the necklace's running numbering. The bronze spiral is of a different kind from the clasp on the earlier half of the necklace.

The skeleton's (no. 1) hands lie immediately around find no. 38. Scattered remains occur in the middle of the find concentration formed by finds nos. 26-43. Two vertebrae, which lay beside the wall one on top of the other, establish the body's position beyond all doubt: it had sat with its back against the wall

Curved hatched line representing a wall with a vertebra drawn against it
DrawingCurved hatched line representing a wall with a vertebra drawn against it

After a further couple of centimetres of deeper digging, some 20 river-pebble beads were again found, of the same type and in the same place as the earlier ones. They form the end of the colossal necklace. A couple of small bronze pieces lie together with them, and also a bowl of the same type as finds nos. 33 and 43. Numerous large animal bones are found at the centre of the backwall, where also remains of a … continues

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