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 124 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 123Scan 124 of 133

Fill strata become more numerous and thicker as the rock slopes down progressively.

The north section runs completely without-for the buildings and shows only the ground-levels and fill strata. The boundary between layers I and II is the ground level for E.C. I b - the house, the boundary between II and III is the ground level for E.C. I a - the floor, and the two bottom layers are fill in different levels. From the letter f onward there begins a somewhat changed stratification owing to the stone heap lying outside the house and the cultural layer connected with it, which is foreign. Beneath the stone heap a slight reconstruction of two fill layers has become necessary. The foreign stratification reveals only a fragment of some neighbouring building and can only be explained through further … continues

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