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

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

Page 4Scan 135 of 153

In trial pit 4, at 1,25 m. depth, a bronze spearhead was found. Below and north of the terrace wall in level with trial pit 3 a trench was opened (no. 10), where at 0,5 depth and downwards was found Red Polished II-III.

Trial pit 5. In the centre of the 1/4-cir-

the ring-shaped stone setting lay in an approximately vertical position, a stone whose uppermost point lay 7 cm above the upper level of the stone setting and whose lowest point lay 32 cm below the same point.

"Dromos" is a well-like cylindrical depression in the rock; its fill contains scattered Red Pol. twos and threes and is rather stony. It is of course no tomb.

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