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 107 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 107 of 133

Continued from p. 105

… insignificantly lower. Under the wall foundations, which do not rest on the rock, the stratification is reconstructed, though not in any risky way. The reconstruction is limited to the stones' lower edge and the end of the floor surface which extends from the base of the wall. This floor stratum extends through the whole section right to metre 7.60 and marks the extent of the house in this direction (on the plan layer II). Its upper surface lies directly against the field clay without any intervening cultural stratum and is marked by a level of small stones. The whole layer, which consists of light hard-packed clay, contains a great quantity of such rock stone and several smaller river-stones. They become denser to a real "pepper nut floor" the two metres nearest the wall, where it also lies in the horizontal plane. Thereafter it sinks slowly - after metre 5 somewhat more steeply - and the stones' dens- … continues

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