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 104 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).

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… tangle of 6 m length and 4 m breadth. There remains, in the description of the purely Neolithic area, only the hearth in square Γ 9, for which reference is made to the diary notes and sketches of 23-24/10 and to the plan and section on Plate II and VI.

Early Cypriote - the house.

General description.

As the field map shows, about 75 west of the Neolithic level excavation area lies a natural small plateau beside a riverbed. On account of good surface finds (see diary 23/10) and the nature of the terrain, a trial trench was laid here … continues

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