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 60 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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1/11East of Cross trench 2 a two-metre square strip is taken up, whereby the working method is that the foreign, washed-down earth layer, which on the section ["Profil vid 1"] is marked with layer 1 and 2, is removed in one piece. Thereafter the strip which has the number 0 [Δ0, Ε0 and Ζ0] is divided into one-metre-squares and dug in 10 cm. levels along with observation of the existing stratification. At the designation of the pottery-boxes the measurements therefore apply from the upper level of the undisturbed layers, not from the ground surface. The subheading is the main one: Neolithic level excavation. Stratification is throughout the strip no. 0 the same, as it appears in "Profil vid 1"

2/11The development in the Early-Cypriot house is not particularly satisfactory. At any rate it will not be a round house. Designations for … continues

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