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 111 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 111 of 133

These are, from east to west, the sections east, a, b, c, d, f, g, h, i, k.

Pl. VIIÖ runs in the extension of the house's eastern boundary wall and shows its collapsed stones. The stones that lie east of them, cut by the section, lie at the same level as these (see the levelling figures on the plan). Immediately before the section ends, wall stones in situ are met with at a noticeably higher level (c. 0.80 - 1.00 m. higher). The stones of the section therefore lie outside the house, something further underlined by the absence of floor strata. The only stratification consists of the small-stone-bearing bottom layer in which the collapsed wall stones run out, and two faintly marked boundary differences that mark the ground surfaces at resp. E.C.I a and I b. - buildings. The present ground surface in this section, as in its parallel sections, is not drawn in but can easily be reconstructed with guidance from the longitudinal section … continues

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