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 127 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 127 of 153

Continued from p. 125

… with coarse cobbles, and at right angles to this packing there also runs, in the prolongation of the stomion's central axis, a broad wall-core, which at its northern end is supported by the opposite dromos wall. The fill was homogeneous chavara without stratification.

2/11Dromos is drawn and photographed. The packing, through which two sections are laid, is a freestanding solid. Under its base stones next to the rock lie some sherds and bone pieces. When the dromos is thus fully cleared and the packing removed, its form becomes apparent. It is like a broad staircase with three steps.

The chamber is small and niche-shaped and contains a number of vessels. The gateway which is very broad but low, runs out along the whole south long side of the dromos. Some earth has silted in, but on the whole the chamber is preserved. It is divided into squares in the following way (drawing) and the clearing

Plan of a small chamber with entrance divided into four grid squares
DrawingPlan of a small chamber with entrance divided into four grid squares

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