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 110 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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… etc. (Lager V). The earliest floor layer consists of light, stony clay, as does layer II but the stone setting is more uneven. Its extent in the section agrees in general with that of the later floor and, as was the case with this, it runs out in a boundary difference in the stratification outside the house, which indicates the ground surface at the time of the settlement. The stratum contains among the overwhelming majority early Red Polished ware, a couple of certain sherds of painted Neolithic pottery, which circumstance dates it to the transition between the Stone and Copper Age, hereafter called Early Cypriote I a.

Pl. VII--and IXSmaller cross-sections. To establish the extent of the two floors towards the north, a number of shorter sections are left standing in the critical area, all of which run broadly parallel to the one described above

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