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

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

Page 79Scan 79 of 153

Kastros excavation 1928

14/3The excavations begin at the former locality and consist of searching for dromoi to tomb 412 and 415, which for reasons of time were not excavated during the previous campaign. Moreover a trial pit is opened west of tomb 406 in order to seek to establish the extent of the necropolis and whether the hypothesis that the western part of the necropolis as the oldest can be further supported. Dromos to tomb 412 is found and cleared up to its upper (northern) part. As its southern part with the gateway to the chamber lies under the road, the clearing is postponed for now so as not to unnecessarily block the traffic. The dromos is in its exposed part filled with stones. The pottery is geometric and somewhat Byzantine. The earth layer has a thickness … continues

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