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 87 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 87 of 133

Continued from p. 85

… ligt, since the sherd material is ambiguous, but at any rate it cannot be Neolithic on account of its position alone, 0.60 m. below the surface of the earth. General grounds speak for its being E.C.I. Some other traces of such a settlement are, however, not found along the whole of the "Great Section" otherwise.

It likewise yields no otherwise any such archaeological information but ploughs right up to metre 28 through the c. 1 m. thick arable soil, why it is interrupted. Only at metre 24 lies an isolated ash layer next to the rock. What this solitary trace of human culture may mean for Cyprus is probably difficult to explain.

Section at 0 is extracted from Great

Pl. IVSection's 0-point at right angles out from it down towards the road, thus in a northerly direction. Under … continues

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