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 44 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).

Page 43Scan 44 of 133

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2.… more again a fragment of a stone work- cloth, a knife of white, hard, light stone, evidently a sort of flint.

323/1022/10In the section of the trench that consists of square B 8 is found at c. 0.60 m. depth a stone setting, admittedly loosely put together-but nevertheless coherent. At the level with these stones lies a layer of small stones and sandy earth c. 0.10 m thick extending over a part of the square, a floor stratum. It is cut around and left standing at the stone setting In trial pit 1 at a depth of 1.15 a fragment of worked white flint. At right-angles out from the so-called large section is laid cross-section I in the square row 9 northward. Here is found among early red-polished ware a sherd of patterned Neolithic ware at a depth of 0.65 meter The trenches are run on in resp. directions. The earth is still coarse but in the cross-section come further some stone settings to light.

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