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 67 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 67 of 133

Continued from p. 65

… contains in its upper level (= in the stone heap) a considerable amount of Neolithic and early Red Polished ware. The stones are evidently broken out of the Neolithic settlement. Around the dromos runs a channel cut out of the rock, evidently marking the boundaries of the family tomb complex.

The interior of the tomb chamber offers no features of any great interest. Some of the inner stones in the solid packing for the door have fallen inward into the chamber, owing to the loose nature of the rock, and account for the layer of dromos-chavara found nearest the door. The form of the chamber, which was originally that of the shallow parallelepipedal niche, has been entirely demolished by extensive roof and wall collapse. The rock falls have completely filled it, and beneath this, in the inner part of the chamber, begins a somewhat water-washed layer of tomb earth, then a … continues

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