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 119 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 119 of 153

4/4The tombs are gradually filled in and entered on the field map.

Grave 428.

4/4 The dromos, which I believed belonged to tomb 415 (see diary 14/3), led led in to another tomb, which accordingly receives no. 428. It lies very deep and is rarely well preserved. There is no foreign earth whatever in the chamber, which is large and regularly cut. The bodies lie entirely on the surface and are decayed, and one can see the swept-aside pottery from the first burial. It lies in the western part of the chamber; the eastern is the place of the last body, and the middle part holds the gifts to this. Everything is entirely clean and any clearing scarcely needs to occur . The vessels have no coating … continues

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