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 66 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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The following remarks are to be made.

Dromos. Its form is unique in that it forms a regular trapezoid with a slightly outward-bulging longest side. A steep stepped ledge is cut out in the length of the dromos. The dromos is partly filled with stone which rises above the rock level in the form of a cairn. This stone cairn rests on a bed of chavara fill which has a thickness of about 0.80 m. from the dromos bottom. Along the dromos' southern side above the entrance (the bulging side) lies i at the level of the rock a shoring of four stones, and below this, in a pocket of foreign earth, a piece of mudbrick. The dromos' stratification consists, apart from the aforementioned shallow depression around the mudbrick piece, only of chavara of three alternating degrees of hardness. The fill is extremely poor in sherds and in- … continues

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