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 38 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 38 of 153

List continued from p. 37

2-3 2 pcs stone buttonsdiam 2.5 & 2.6
4. Incised double-conical stone buttondiam 2.2

On the floor, western part, there lay a

5. Bronze pin brokenlength 8.0

Then the chamber and the finds are drawn in their entirety. Two bodies are in the tomb, both very badly damaged. The one (no. 1) lies on its back with the head toward the door on the eastern part of the chamber floor, the other (no. 2) in the same position on its western part. Around these two bodies the deposit is grouped. The hypothesis that the tomb belongs to the older ones is confirmed to a high degree by the nature of the vessel contents. There are namely purely Sub-Mycenaean hydriai and kylikes with high foot etc. No gold. The vessels are drawn and taken out in the following order.

6 Barrel-shaped painted jugheight 28.1
7 Painted kylix—”— height 12.3
8 Black ribbed trefoil jug—”— height 23.2
9 —"— —"— ——”— height 27.1
10 —"— —"— ——”— height 22.6
11 —"— —"— ——”— height 23.8

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