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 115 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 115 of 153

Continued from p. 113

… well cut but lies superficially. Square 1 is worked. Its original stratification is disturbed. An upper mixed-earth layer (layer 1) full of stone from the gateway and from the rubble pyramid, which came from the hole in the roof, covers a lower chavara-containing layer with embedded rock pieces and stone from the upper layer. (Layer 2). Closest to the rock lies as usual a centimetre-thick clean chavara-layer (layer 3). The square is almost find-less. Most of the sherds are to be found in the uppermost layer, where also 10 bone stumps were found. In layer 2 find no. was found 1. Bronze fibula.

2/4The squares 2-4 are cleared and their stratification agrees with no. 1. Squares 2 and 3 are the poorest in sherds. In square four (surface layer) there are found finds nris

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