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 59 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 59 of 133

Continued from p. 57

no. 30no. 31no. 32no. 33… (northern) edge next to the rock a small well-preserved stone axe of polished black stone, l. 5.5 and next to it a larger similar axe, l. 9.1 both in Z 1. Trial pit 2 (see diary of 23/10) is expanded and the wall which was met there (25/10) is followed. It turns out to be a part of an Early Cypriot round-building, whose foundation walls now successively are exposed. More on this later. Outside the south-western corner of this round house a well-preserved round stone axe l. 5.8 at a depth of 0.25 m., and in the earth heaps from the original trial pit a beautiful fragment of a flat stone axe l. 4.0. As a designation of the locality the henceforth used on pottery and small finds "E.C. house". The pottery as well as these stone tools show unambiguously that the house is from Early Cypriot I

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