Field diary·DII:1d·1928

Idalion and Lapithos, PlakesErik Sjöqvist

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

Scan 103 of field diary DII:1d (Idalion and Lapithos, Plakes), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

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

Unnumbered pageScan 103 of 133

Continued from p. 101

… foreign earth that forms the above-mentioned heap of displaced earth from the building of tomb 602. More certainly undisturbed are then the four smaller stones south of and 602's dromos in square E 1, which nevertheless seem to have had a similar function to the stones beside the mill. The accumulation of stones in the south-western corner of E 1 belongs to the collapse and flood layers^*) and can therefore be left out of account entirely. No conclusion concerning the form of the house can therefore be reached. The only thing that can be said is merely that a Neolithic floor has had an extent of c. 2 m. in breadth and c. 4 m. in length within squares E 1 and E 0. To this may be added that this floor probably also included the two bothroi 1 and 2, although no traces of the same are found there. If that is the case, the floor area becomes approximately a rec-

\*) See photograph plate 899 and section at metre 3

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