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 68 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).

Page 67Scan 68 of 133

Continued from scan 67

… darker corpse-stratum and finally a thin chavara layer (rock dust from the cutting of the tomb)

The bodies are three in number, none of them completely preserved in situ, not even the last, which belongs together with skull no. 1 and whose lower extremities nevertheless appear undisturbed. The two others are swept aside and subsequently redisturbed also by water that seeped into the tomb. The skulls are however well preserved and all are plastered, though they lack lower jaws. Also 2 pcs femur are plastered The vessels are quite late geometric: much bucchero and plates and a plain grey amphoriskos. c. 800 B.C.

It should be noted that during the excavation of the cross-section through the dromos, an oversight made partial reconstruction necessary when drawing the stone packing.

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