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 89 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 89 of 133

Continued from p. 87

… cultural earth, somewhat reddish in colour, containing abundant Neolithic pottery and sporadic charcoal particles, which occur more densely around two thin bands of rock-stone that divide the layer, as is seen from the section drawing. That the layer is undisturbed is shown by 1st: The sand which shows that the rainwater has passed over the layer, not carried it with it. In such a case the layer itself would namely also contain sand bands, which is not the case. 2nd: The layer is capped by a hard white clay layer which holds a great deal of chavara-stone (layer V), which delimits the stratum against the washed-down field earth. 3rd: The above-mentioned bands of rock-stone give, as far as one can tell, a successive stratification. The undisturbed layer's extent in the direction of the section is, as said, tämligen … continues

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