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 37 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 37 of 133

Continued from p. 33

… of the L.C. cemetery that Ohnefalsch-Richter excavated, and is the fruit of a systematic search through this district. In line with the tomb, in the trial pits at canonical distances worked earth and dromos fill were found, as well as traces of tombs that had been filled in and opened, which had either been emptied by Richter or by the dalites. The tomb found is probably the one that topographically lies nearest the Mycenaean cemetery and has escaped earlier attention .

Its dromos is narrow and elongated and sunk into stepped terraces, which are lined with pressed chavara-mixed pilós. Certain steptreads consist entirely of pilós. The stratification in the dromos itself is undisturbed and consists of fill in two layers. Above the gateway itself to the collapsed chamber, however, there is a … continues

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