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Field diary·DII:2c·1927–1931

Ayios Iakovos

59 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 2 pages cut out beside the text.

Read the field diaryStart at the cover59 pages · 4,198 words · 1 dated entries

DII:2c is a small working notebook connected with the expedition's work in 1929 at Ayios Iakovos, north of Famagusta. The cover label reads only "Ajios Jakovos DII:2c", and the volume does not name its keeper. The museum dates it to the expedition's whole span, 1927–1931, and its only dated note, of 20 April 1928, records film taken at Polis.

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It begins with notes on pottery classes and dates, and then the object register of the Late Cypriote sanctuary at Ayios Iakovos, the Bronze Age cult place at Dhima, with each find's grid square, level and measurement, starting with a silver bracelet. Tomb find lists follow; one is headed "Tomb 15 [= 13 in publ.]", which ties the field number to the published one. Pages of levelling figures come next, and a count of the time spent on each task at a tomb: sieving, hauling buckets, drawing and lifting a group of vessels. The second half is a Modern Greek vocabulary and grammar, words written in Greek with their meanings. The notes are in Swedish, the object descriptions in English.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. See also Ayios Iakovos and the excavation page.

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. 302–361.

Dated entries

As written in the field diary, in page order

  1. 20 Apr 1928Ajios Jakovosscan 26

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The whole diary

Short
Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2c (Ayios Iakovos, 1927–1931).
Full
Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2c, Ayios Iakovos, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2c (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-dii-2c, title = {{Field diary DII:2c: Ayios Iakovos}}, year = {1927}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:2c}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2c} }

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2c (Ayios Iakovos, 1927–1931), p. 14.
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Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2c, Ayios Iakovos, 1927–1931, p. 14 [scan 14]. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2c/p/14 (accessed [date]).

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:2c (Ayios Iakovos, 1927–1931), p. 14, l. 2.
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Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:2c, Ayios Iakovos, 1927–1931, p. 14 [scan 14], line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-2c/p/14#l2 (accessed [date]).