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 88 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 88 of 153

expressed in height: base 0.66, top 0.55; lateral position from the left dromos wall 0.09 - 0.32, from the right 0.43 - 0.64. The skull lies on the left side with the face towards the south.

19/3During Sunday's course the two skeletons in the dromos at 420 were destroyed by meddlesome children. The skeletons lay in the middle of the dromos, parallel and in dorsal position with the heads towards north, and entirely lacked Beigaben. Both dromoi are being cleared to the base; their chavara-fill is practically sherd-free and without any stratification.

In the dromos at 420 a niche is found in to the chamber gateway on the dromos' western long-side. It is covered by flat slabs, of which a couple that rested entirely on the earth fill collapsed in the course of the work.

10-15 m. east of the dromos to 420 I made a trial trench, which proved positive and thus resulted in tomb 422.

20/3The dromos down to 415 is cleared at the base and trimmed. Its bottom layer near the door contains a … continues

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