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 126 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).

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… of the facade can be traced in the stone finds-ments.

Characteristic of all the house's stone-foundations is their very fragile and loose wall-laying: no wall-stone rests on the rock but all are laid in earth layers; the walls consist only of one stone level; the stones are all unworked natural stone of varying kind and hardness (river stone, conglomerate, rock stone); the wall-laying itself is irregular and temporary and the wall-core is filled as needed with small stones In the east wall a door without threshold stone c. 0.85 m. broad, next to the point where the round-wall passes into the straight east wall, which then continues c. 3.00 metres where it ends with a larger stone. The total length of the east wall is c. 5.80 m. Below the wall's end lies an intact … continues

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