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 84 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 material - and the decisive majority is Red Polished ware. Bottom stratum in E. C. House is thus not, as the western excavation site, a Late Neolithic settlement but dates itself from the transitional period to the Early Copper-Age, shortly before the year 3000. From this I draw the conclusion that the Neolithic settlement was situated on and mainly east of the excavation site and that the settlement during its surely continuous development expanded itself with new settlements in the area west of our excavation to the vicinity of E. C. House.

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Detailed description and commentary on the drawings.

Large Section which was laid out … continues

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