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 84 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 84 of 178

Tomb 14

27/10For the second time this tomb is opened. The dromos is broad and handsome, with a hint of steps on the north short side. The dromos fill was homogeneous and unusually poor in sherds. There are two chambers: the eastern a, the northern b. Both are opened.

28/10Chamber A is medium-sized and has two niches both cut into the wall above floor level. Five skeletons are present: no. 1 in the northern niche, no. 2 on the floor below the same, no. 3 on the floor at the middle of the back wall, no. 4 below the southern niche, no. 5 in the same Nos. 1 and 2 are crouched skeletons, no. 5 probably a seated one with its back to the entrance. The tomb is filled with some 20 good Red Polished 2s and a few later Red Pol. vessels likewise. All the vessels lie on the same level. They are drawn into the plan and taken out

1.Red Pol. incised jug sleeved neck swollen neck, 2 handles height 24.5

2 Red Pol. jug height 52.5

3 Red Pol. hemisph. bowl damaged

4 —" — " — diam 13.6

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