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 88 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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… for its first 4 metres the rock slopes gently downward, and the stratification is only "agricultural". As mentioned above, a silt layer from a flood can be established above the base layer's chavara, a layer that ends at a waterfall step in the rock at metre 5. Here the water has eaten its way down into a Neolithic cultural stratum, which nevertheless, because of its hard consistency, offered strong resistance. The flood has been forced over it, and at the very "waterfall stairs" it deposited sand and small stones. Such deposits, though of lesser extent, mark its course over the Neolithic cultural level. This layer extends from c. metre 5 to 6.20 and where it is cut by the section it has a thickness of 0.70 - 0.80 metres. It is a greasy, hard-packed … continues

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