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 119 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 119 of 133

Continued from p. 117

… sinking, which obliterates layers III and IV and extends right up to the north wall. In this "ditch" lies a quantity of larger wall-stones (cf. the plan) packed in partly half-burnt, partly raw pisé: the sunk foundations of the house's west wall, which evidently were of sun-dried clay. In the upper part of the section (cf. also the plan) the floor stones were so large and so closely laid that no separate substruction was necessary. Outside the north wall the same limited stone rubble is found as appeared in the section h. The completion of the section through the earth pillar on which the north wall rests leaves hardly any possibility of error. Layer VII (fill layer of stone- and chaff-mixed clay) namely continues on the outside of the wall, beneath the higher-lying, somewhat darker fill layer (layer VI), which does not recur. In its place there namely enters the reddish carbonaceous layer, in which the stone- … continues

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