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Field diary·DII:1e·1929

Nitovikla, Ayia Irini, Enkomi and other find lists

Kept by Erik Sjöqvist

179 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 11 pages cut out beside the text.

Read the field diary179 pages · 25,464 words · 1 dated entries

DII:1e is a volume of find lists, with almost no running narrative. The cover reads "Nitovikla 1929 (tombs and find lists), Kountoura Trachonia, Palaioskoutella (The Devil's Tumulus!), Gallinopourni, Ayia Irini, Enkomi" and "(prob. by Erik Sjöqvist)", and the museum's record follows that attribution. It gathers the object registers of several excavations: four in the Karpas, the sanctuary at Ayia Irini and the cemetery at Enkomi.

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The lists give each object its number, a description, the level or grid square where it lay, and a height or diameter: the Nitovikla tombs, the Kountoura Trachonia tombs, the Devil's Tumulus (no. 7) at Palaeoskoutella, tomb 1 at Galinoporni, and Enkomi tombs. The largest part is the register of the Ayia Irini sanctuary, nos. 1–2788, page after page of terracotta statuettes, chariots and bulls with their squares and levels. At the end are notes on Turkish words and phrases for use in the field, and a note on two female statues seen at Pyrgi. The column heads and notes are in Swedish; most object descriptions are in English.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. See also Ayia Irini: terracotta figures, The Karpas and Nitovikla Reconsidered.

Sources

  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1934. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. I. Stockholm, pp. 407–460, 467–575.
  • Gjerstad, E., Lindros, J., Sjöqvist, E. and Westholm, A. 1935. The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: Finds and Results of the Excavations in Cyprus 1927–1931, vol. II. Stockholm, pp. 642–824.

Dated entries

As written in the field diary, in page order

  1. 5 Apr 1930Nitoviklascan 170

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The whole diary

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1e (Nitovikla, Ayia Irini, Enkomi and other find lists, 1929).
Full
Erik Sjöqvist, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1e, Nitovikla, Ayia Irini, Enkomi and other find lists, 1929. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1e (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-dii-1e, author = {Erik Sjöqvist}, title = {{Field diary DII:1e: Nitovikla, Ayia Irini, Enkomi and other find lists}}, year = {1929}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:1e}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1e} }

A page

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1e (Nitovikla, Ayia Irini, Enkomi and other find lists, 1929), p. 4.
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Erik Sjöqvist, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1e, Nitovikla, Ayia Irini, Enkomi and other find lists, 1929, p. 4 [scan 56]. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1e/p/56 (accessed [date]).

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1e (Nitovikla, Ayia Irini, Enkomi and other find lists, 1929), p. 4, l. 2.
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Erik Sjöqvist, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1e, Nitovikla, Ayia Irini, Enkomi and other find lists, 1929, p. 4 [scan 56], line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1e/p/56#l2 (accessed [date]).