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

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

Unnumbered pageScan 109 of 153

Continued from p. 107

… d. v. s the western part of it, through which the robbers had forced their way in. Afterwards the roof collapse has spread its white, reconciling blanket over the destruction, and as the last phase the provisionally built gateway has collapsed of its own accord.

The south-eastern part of square 1 lies at a deeper level than the rest of the floor. Perhaps it is a shaft into which sherds from earlier burials were swept. This would explain the large quantity of unconnected sherds. The sherds that lie in the "shaft" below the rest of the floor surface are packed under a separate designation.

30/3Ruta 2 shows a somewhat different stratification. The thick earth layer above the rock collapse is very thin, while below it the rock collapse is thicker. We establish

1)Earth fill and foreign stone

2)Rock collapse

3)Burial layer and mulch earth

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