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 52 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).

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25… bearing a packing of small stones that directly passes into a floor surface. It is E.C. I. The wall rests on a sterile chavara-layer that gradually passes into rock. To find the stratification E.C. — neolithic, a further couple of trial pits are taken. They are placed up on the slope south of the excavation and are numbered nos. 3 and 4. In square I q Γ1 a larger piece of a flint knife l. 4.1 cm depth 0.55 is found. On this level there is, among the otherwise mixed pottery, also a couple of neolithic sherds.

26/10In the same square, Γ 1, it turns out that the rock has a hewn-out depression c. 1.20 m. broad. It is bounded by two parallel long sides cut vertically down into the rock and running in an east-west direction. The eastern short side is somewhat irregular, and to the west the cutting extends in under the trench wall.

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