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 127 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 127 of 133

Continued from p. 125

… part of fallen wall and floor stones, which are entered on the plan. Note, however, its height figures and the cross-section at E. The west wall at the boundary of the round-wall is in very poor condition. Stones have fallen both outwards and inwards (the later-ones not entered on the plan), and the wall-line is hardly discernible. This is, however, only over a stretch of c. 2 m; thereafter the sunken wall foundations begin, which run at right angles towards the north wall and form a right-angled corner against it. Any bond whatsoever is naturally not present. The two walls lie at different levels, as the north wall rests high up in the earth. The extension of the north wall is marked by two strongly dimensioned post-holes. Outside these post-holes the floor layer ends. They have thus stood inside the house or m.a.o. rather in the very roadway, where they had the task of sup- … continues

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