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Field diary·DII:1f·June to July 1930

Enkomi, the tombs

63 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation.

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DII:1f is a thin notebook of find lists from the expedition's excavation of the Late Bronze Age cemetery at Enkomi in the summer of 1930. The cover label reads "Enkomi. Tombs with find lists" and "not to be copied"; the volume does not name its keeper. Göransson records that Erik Sjöqvist led the Enkomi excavation, in which twenty-two tombs were uncovered after trial trenches across ground cut by Byzantine buildings.

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There is no narrative. Each page is a tomb register: tombs 10, 11, 13 and 16 to 20, with side chambers and a tomb 19a, numbered object by object with a short description, the level at which it lay and a height or diameter. The lists are dominated by Mycenaean (Late Helladic III) stirrup vases, piriform amphorae and three-handled jugs, beside Base-ring and White Slip bowls, White Shaved juglets, plain kraters, and an ostrich egg in tomb 11. The lists are written in English, with the ostrich egg entered in French.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. The objects themselves are photographed in the Enkomi series; DII:1e holds the lists for the earlier tombs.

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. 467–575 (tombs 10–20 at pp. 505–569).
  • Göransson, K. 2012. "The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: The Cyprus collections in Stockholm and the Swedish excavations after the SCE", Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, p. 403.

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The whole diary

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1f (Enkomi, the tombs, June to July 1930).
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Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1f, Enkomi, the tombs, June to July 1930. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1f (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-dii-1f, title = {{Field diary DII:1f: Enkomi, the tombs}}, year = {1930}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:1f}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1f} }

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1f (Enkomi, the tombs, June to July 1930), scan 1.
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Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1f, Enkomi, the tombs, June to July 1930, scan 1. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1f/p/1 (accessed [date]).

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1f (Enkomi, the tombs, June to July 1930), scan 1, l. 2.
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Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1f, Enkomi, the tombs, June to July 1930, scan 1, line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1f/p/1#l2 (accessed [date]).