Field diary·DII:1e·1929

Nitovikla, Ayia Irini, Enkomi and other find listsErik Sjöqvist

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 179 of field diary DII:1e (Nitovikla, Ayia Irini, Enkomi and other find lists), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

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

Unnumbered pageScan 179 of 179

In Pyrgi (Pyrgos). A locality

c. 1¾ Eng. miles inland (southward) from Aijos Thyrsos. A high plateau crowned by a rocky height full of erratic boulders and with no or little earth. On the west side of the rocky height lie two large statues of local stone on the earth surface. They are two "Assyrian"-Cypriot women in long schematically folded mantles, the smaller one with right hand lifting the garment the left with strongly bent arm-bow bearing some offering. The larger seems more Egyptianizing . Its right hand is held pressed to the breast and holds a fruit

The largeThe small
L. Height4.38 m.2.30 m

The whole plateau is built over in Byzantine times

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