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Field diary·DII:1d·1928

Idalion and Lapithos, Plakes

Kept by Erik Sjöqvist

133 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 12 pages cut out beside the text.

Read the field diary133 pages · 17,348 words · 28 dated entries

DII:1d is the second notebook Erik Sjöqvist kept in 1928; the cover names him and calls it "book no. II". It covers the autumn campaign on the western acropolis of Idalion, which resumed on 4 September 1928, and then the work at Plakes, Lapithos, in October and November. The first entry explains that the earlier diary had been left behind at Machairas, so the last find number was unknown and the new register starts at no. 1000.

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The Idalion pages record the cross trenches and the strips opened beside them: each layer described and numbered, the removal of washed-down earth, the charcoal layer against a wall, and finds entered with their levels. The Lapithos section describes the excavation of the settlement at Plakes, where the dromos of tomb 602 had cut through the occupation layers, and the three tombs 601–603. It ends with a written account of the settlement, its floors and its plan. The text is in Swedish.

The page reader shows each page's scan beside our transcription and English translation. See also Lapithos: fieldwork, Plakes and other finds and Idalion: the acropolis and tombs in the field.

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. 13–33, 265–276.
  • 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. 460–628.

Dated entries

As written in the field diary, in page order

  1. 4 Sept 1928Daliscan 4
  2. 7 Sept 1928Daliscan 4
  3. 3 Oct 1928Daliscan 29
  4. 26 Sept 1928Dalip. 37
  5. 20 Oct 1928Lapithosp. 2
  6. 22 Oct 1928Lapithosp. 43
  7. 23 Oct 1928Lapithosp. 43
  8. 24 Oct 1928Lapithosscan 47
  9. 1 Oct 1928Dalip. 47
  10. 25 Oct 1928Dali Lapithosscan 51
  11. 26 Oct 1928Lapithosp. 51
  12. 27 Oct 1928Dali Lapithosscan 55
  13. 25 Oct 1928scan 55
  14. 29 Oct 1928Dali Lapithosscan 55
  15. 30 Oct 1928Daliscan 57
  16. 31 Oct 1928Daliscan 57
  17. 25 Oct 1928Daliscan 59
  18. 1 Nov 1928Dalip. 59
  19. 2 Nov 1928Dalip. 59
  20. 3 Nov 1928Dali Lapithosscan 63
  21. 8 Nov 1928Dali Lapithosscan 63
  22. 5 Nov 1928Dali Lapithosscan 65
  23. 12 Nov 1928Dalip. 69
  24. 12 Nov 1928Dali Lapithosscan 71
  25. 12 Nov 1928Dali Lapithosp. 71
  26. 13 Nov 1928Dali Lapithosp. 71
  27. 23 Oct 1928Dali Lapithosp. 103
  28. 27 Oct 1928scan 133

Pages

Scan order; the field diary’s own page numbers where it has them

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  6. p. 3
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  12. scan 12
  13. scan 13
  14. p. 36.1
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  16. p. 13
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  18. p. 15
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  21. scan 21
  22. p. 19
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  26. p. 23
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  28. p. 25
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  30. p. 27
  31. scan 31
  32. p. 29
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  34. p. 31
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  36. p. 33
  37. scan 37
  38. p. 35
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  40. p. 37
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  42. p. 2
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  133. scan 133

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The whole diary

Short
Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1d (Idalion and Lapithos, Plakes, 1928).
Full
Erik Sjöqvist, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1d, Idalion and Lapithos, Plakes, 1928. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1d (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-dii-1d, author = {Erik Sjöqvist}, title = {{Field diary DII:1d: Idalion and Lapithos, Plakes}}, year = {1928}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:1d}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1d} }

A page

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1d (Idalion and Lapithos, Plakes, 1928), p. 3.
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Erik Sjöqvist, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1d, Idalion and Lapithos, Plakes, 1928, p. 3 [scan 6]. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1d/p/6 (accessed [date]).

A line

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition field diary DII:1d (Idalion and Lapithos, Plakes, 1928), p. 3, l. 2.
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Erik Sjöqvist, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, field diary DII:1d, Idalion and Lapithos, Plakes, 1928, p. 3 [scan 6], line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-dii-1d/p/6#l2 (accessed [date]).