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

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

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… so the wall must be either older or contemporary with the burial, since the skull and the vessels were well preserved, an unthinkable supposition if the wall had been founded later. Probable is that the wall belongs to the same period as the tomb in general and belongs to its structure. The chamber is not intact. Its door packing does not lie in situ; the stones are loosely laid. When the road was built, the tomb was opened and destroyed according to the natives' account. This is also confirmed when the tomb is opened. It is disturbed throughout and full of foreign stones. "The chamber" consists of two separate tombs whose dividing wall has collapsed and been replaced by a laid stone wall, which however has also been demolished at the plundering of the chamber. The door of the second chamber lies undisturbed, and its dromos must run parallel with and slightly west of this tomb's. The clearing of the chambers is begun.

Dromos. The skull in the dromos is taken out and

the clearing around it is continued.

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