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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 81 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 81 of 178

List continued from scan 80

+ 812 pcs bronze pins broken
+ 82Bronze tweezers brokenlength8.1S
+ 83Bronze pinlength11.3S
+ 84Bronze knife—” — length9.3S
85White painted bowldiam11.9
86— ” — White bottleheight26.8
87Bronze daggerlength22.2
88Red Pol. beaked jugheight23.2
89Bronze knifelength12.0
90White P. cup. damageddiam6.5
91— ” — White jugheight13.2
92— ” — White flacon— ” — height9.0
93— ” — White amphora— ” — height16.2
94— ” — White flat bowldiam11.5
95— ” — ” — ” — White flat bowl— ” — diam10.9
96— " — " — " —damaged in packet
97— " — amphoraheight14.8

The tomb is finished and a section is laid out through the gully. The tomb is extremely fine and rich. In its northern part a passage opens onto another tomb which is to be excavated later Both chamber α and β-γ are M. C. I.

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