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 123 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 123 of 153

List continued from p. 121

24 Bronze fibula

25 Bronze tweezers

26 Bronze pin damaged

The gold rosettes are exactly like find no. 10 and since this one appears to be alone, it probably did not originally belong to burial no. 2, but was left behind when the earlier burial no. 3 was packed.

The squares 3-4 are cleared and freed from their sherd layer. Of skeleton no. 2 there remain parts of the skull, one upper arm bone and fragments of the femurs preserved. The body has lain dorsally with the head towards the door. On top of the same the finds are found

27 Double-conical stone button

28 Bronze ring.

Remaining vessels are drawn and photographed and taken out:

29 Buccheroid bl. jugheight 27.2
30 Painted platediam 23.1
31 Buccheroid bl. jugheight 16.3
32 Painted skyphosheight 9.2

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