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 51 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 51 of 133

Continued from p. 49

2021222325/1024.… and a number of flint flakes. In the surface layer in square H 9 at a depth of 0.18 m a flint knife of flint 2.1 cm long is found Among the sherds in the Large section B 5 40-60 a couple of Neolithic ones can be noted, and in the bottom stratum another couple. In addition a piece of a larger flint tool is found l. 3.0 cm at a depth of 0.75 m. and in B 3 depth 65 a piece of worked flint l. 3.5 cm A new cross-section is laid out, which starts from the end point of the Large Section at B 1. It runs at right angles and is fitted into the square grid so that it will consist of the row of squares Γ 1, Δ 1, Ε 1 etc., and sets the course for the stretch of the road section where we first found Neolithic sherds. In square Γ 1 a piece of semicircular flint d. 2.5 cm depth 45 is found.

The work in trial pit 2 is concluded. There an extremely primitively constructed wall has come to light. It consists of a facing of larger stones on one outer side of the wall, up- … continues

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