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 70 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 73Scan 70 of 178

26/11Besides, around the remains of the skull there are 6 pcs. of bronze pins, which evidently functioned as hairpins, and a 15-odd larger glass-paste beads. Also small beads of the common type occur in large numbers, but owing to the damp they are like meal. Most of them are lost and no reconstruction of the ornament can be made with any certainty. Detail sketch, numbering, alignment.

114.Wh. painted bulbous amphora damagedheight c. 25
115.6 pcs bronze pinslength from 14.9
116Necklace not laid out (in box)

The beads were too fragile to withstand stringing. An attempt was made, whereby 2 pcs. broke. The small beads are recovered with the earth. Further clearing in niche C At the skull, just below it, a ring and a flint piece were found.

117Bronze ring (earring) spiral form.diam 1.2
118Flint piecelength 1.7

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