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 84 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 84 of 153

the dromos burial in 415 is cleared and the vessels are taken out

1 Red bucchero trefoil jug damaged height c. 13

2 Painted bowl w. 2 handles damaged (in packet)

3 — " — " — " — " —

4 Trefoil jug badly damaged in packet

5.Painted amphora damaged height c. 28.0

6.Red bucchero trefoil jug height 17.2

16/3The so-called dromos of tomb 421 was found to end blindly and not to lead in to any chamber, and the burial there is therefore a shaft tomb. The vessels are throughout late. The rock is layered and of varying hardness, and therefore unsuitable for hewing and working. Lenses of good rock lie inside a layer of pulverised chavara. This probably explains the method of burial.

While searching for the dromoi of tombs 417 and 420, a cut depression running in an east-west direction is found in the rock. It is probably not any … continues

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