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 83 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 83 of 133

Continued from p. 81

… is that the excavated area lies in the western part of the site, this being due in the first place to the sherd finds (eastwards) and the stratification in the large section and cross-section I (see the sketch), which was negative. On the road up to Agia Paraskevi there have moreover been found wall remains of probably Neolithic origin (see sketch). At this place, i.e. from the excavation-area to c. 100 metres eastwards, Neolithic settlement has been traced. Westwards at roughly the same distance from the excavation site lies the so-called Early Cypriote house, an early Bronze Age house - more about this below - in whose bottom stratum an earlier settlement is admittedly traced, but it is of very uncertain date. The truly Neolithic pottery is hardly present at all - only a couple of certain sherds in the whole … continues

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