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 120 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).

Page 119Scan 120 of 133

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… the mound lies packed in. The end of the lowering of the west wall is obtained by the schematic connection of two given points. The north wall, loosely and superficially laid, must under this assumption be a later completion of the E·C·I b house, something which in itself is by no means improbable. In any case it is structurally built later than the west wall.

Pl. IX.k. This section runs at the very edge of the house furthest out to the west and only at c. 0.50 m distance from i. Its real interest lies in the fact that one can establish how strongly limited the lowering for the west wall was. Here namely the E·C·I b-floor's lower limit again runs at normal height, only dipping just before it goes in under the north wall. The E·C·I a-floor here has its smallest extent (layer IV), and the fill- … continues

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