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 52 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 52 of 153

List continued from p. (51)

58Painted cupdiam17.5
59— ” — Painted amphora damagedheight14.7
60— 〃 — trefoil jug badly damaged
61— 〃 — flat bottle damagedheight15.8
62— ” — — BYGELKANNAheight13.3

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Tomb 409.

Dromos is broad and long, of purely Mycenaean type, although sloping steeply towards the door to the chamber. It is provided with a niche in the middle of the eastern long side. This was empty. The fill contains a quantity of geometric pottery

1/12The gateway does not appear entirely solid, but the door packing is interlaced with the roots of olive trees of roughly 100 years' age, so that the opening, if it has taken place at all, lies in a fairly recent period. The gateway and dromos are drawn and the door packing is broken away. The chamber is in its entire original … continues

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