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 90 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 90 of 153

Next to the gateway in tomb 422 lies a large hewn block of poros. Along it the dromos' sides are shallowly widened in apsidal form. Farther along in the same dromos lies in a horizontal position a larger stone slab, all pointing to a later burial.

In the dromos to tomb 423 there lie a considerable number of pep-parrot stones and a larger piece of poros stemming from the door packing.

The sherds in both dromoi are from the early Geometric period.

In the dromos to 422 runs 0.52 m. below the rock-edge level a clear stratification in horizontal direction. Below this level is clean and unmixed chavara, above it is humus-mixed sandy earth. In the level remains of a skull and a stone slab in the form of a Cypriot idol. Below it the skeleton continues.

21/3the work rested due to torrential rain.

22/3the dromos to tomb 422 is cleared out and photographed. On its western long side, next to the gateway, at height with the "offering table", the recess- … continues

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