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 123 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 123 of 133

Continued from p. 121

… a surface layer washed down by a rain-flood: sand streaks, small stones, bowl-shaped clay layers etc.

The middle longitudinal section can be read easily without lengthy commentary. It should be noted only that, as the plan shows, it is broken off in front of the north wall's end stones, and instead of continuing in its original direction, which would have necessitated demolishing the wall, it turns at right angles and continues 0.20 m. farther south parallel to its original direction.

In this way it runs immediately before the north wall, which is thus spared and whose stones are partly cut away, partly drawn in elevation.

Otherwise the section is similar to the previous one.

E.C.Ia- the floor, however, only partly reaches the section, whereby over the greater part of the section layer III directly abuts against layer V

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