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 91 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 91 of 133

Continued from p. 89

… dromos and which had been completely washed away by the rain-flood in the section at 0; here there is only something unworn, and it is capped av by a silt-layer belonging to the same flood. Likewise, as at the previously mentioned section, this layer recurs in the form of scattered sand-streaks on top of the Neolithic cultural layer further down in the section. The Neolithic layer begins here, as also at the 0-line, in a hollow in the rock between metres 4 and 5, where it has lain sheltered from the storms and watercourses of the time. It has the same bipartite division as at the 0-line, where it was marked by a string of chavara stones. The layer is divided here in a similar way by a row of small stones into an upper looser level and a lower harder one. No difference in the composition of the earth is present. It is interrupted at metre 7.30, having first thinned out successively. It is replaced by a … continues

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