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 129 of field diary DII:1d (Idalion and Lapithos, Plakes), handwritten in Swedish, with drawings. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:1d, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 129 of 133

The house is divided roughly along its transverse axis into two halves by a row of posts. There are five of them, and [illegible]<s>/ in line with them lies as no. 6 the large post at the outer wall to the north. The distance between them is, as already mentioned, fairly regular, varying only between 0.60 and 0.80 m. Between the 4th and 5th post the distance on the other hand is c. 2. m., which indicates that there was a door here leading from the outer to the inner room. The house form is thus in the reconstruction-sketch roughly as follows The straight walls are entirely timber constructions or pisé

Plan of a building with straight and curved walls, hatched wall sections, an internal partition with a gap, two small circles inside, and a north arrow
DrawingPlan of a building with straight and curved walls, hatched wall sections, an internal partition with a gap, two small circles inside, and a north arrow

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