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 63 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 63 of 133

Continued from p. 61

… the lithic layers, and in their place there lies now a homogeneous, sherdless dromos fill of chavara. The whole is illustrated well by the longitudinal section

3/11West of cross-section 2 in square Δ2 the washed-down collapse earth is removed, and from the white limestone-mixed clay earth onward (in the Section = layer III) a level excavation begins in 10-cm. levels and one-metre squares. The true Neolithic earth is not found with certainty until layer IV, but so as not to miss anything, the levels are also excavated in layer III, which holds a little of everything

8/11During the preceding days Δ2-Ε2 were dug in levels and tomb 601 was opened, and the Neolithic hearth in Γ9 was begun to be cleared. The hearth proves to be circular, as was assumed, and the stone lining is found all round the edge (cf. 23/10). The following finds were made in the hearth itself:

35 Flint knife l. 5,0 cm.

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