Field diary·DII:1b·1927–1928

Lapithos, KastrosErik Sjöqvist

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 105 of field diary DII:1b (Lapithos, Kastros), handwritten in Swedish, with drawings. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:1b, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 105 of 153

Continued from p. 103

… sherd; otherwise the body lies on a thin chavara layer nearest the rock. This chavara-layer is found over the whole floor surface. The body thus has no special bed at all.

29/3The tomb's base is being cleared. The base layer is probably undisturbed in its entirety. The level­ ing is undisturbed over the whole tomb except in the corner of square 4, where the main vessel deposit was. There foreign hands have been and smashed and ravaged Skeleton, pots and stone setting are being drawn and photographed and taken out

8. Bucchero-trefoil jugh. 17.1
9 Painted trefoil jug.h. 24.0

The tomb is finally cleared, and at the left elbow of the skeleton find no. is found.

10. Iron tool brokenl. 14.3.

and under the ribcage no.

11 Double-conical button of greenstonediam 1.1

The numbering of the square division is shown in the adjacent (diagram/sketch).

Plan of a square chamber divided into four quadrants with a short entrance at the bottom
DrawingPlan of a square chamber divided into four quadrants with a short entrance at the bottom

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