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 90 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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Pl. IVPl. III… ligen insignificant, as it is cut through at a dromos belonging to a tomb (no. 602) from the later Geometric necropolis. The boundary is marked by a hard-packed yellowish layer of chavara originating from the tomb cutting. It is very poor in sherds, so nearly sterile, containing only the odd and other geometric body sherd. (see tomb description of no. 602 and) The Neolithic layer has thus been partly cut through by the 2 m. broad trench which on the plan is marked by the lines 0 and 2. How the section of the area appears is thus shown in Section at 2 m, which in general is similar to the section at 0. In its upper (southern) stretch it cuts through the western part of tomb 601's dromos (see diary sketch 26/10). The layer of chavara fill which lay like a heap thrown up over the tomb- … continues

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