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

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

Page 97Scan 97 of 153

Continued from scan 96

… a hole which, during the cutting of the dromos, had been driven into the roof of an adjoining tomb chamber and then covered over with earth and stone. After that hole had been filled in, the tomb builders abandoned the plan of cutting a chamber, laid their dead in the earth and stone fill, and deposited the pot and covered the whole. A fibula is found beside the skeleton.

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