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 4 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 4 of 133

4/9The work is begun and, i.e. we take up where we left off a month ago and everything slips automatically back into the old routines. As the old diary was left behind at Macheras and so the last number of the find register is unknown, it is begun this time with no. 1000, in order to fill the gap at the first suitable opportunity.

7/9In square Ξ 6, where this is cut by the diagonal section, the earth over an area of c. 140 cm in length has been worked in a trench with straight sides right down to the rock. The section is photographed. It is by no means improbable that it is just here that the famous inscription about Onasilos was found, especially since the locality lies directly in front of the temenos entrance .

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