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 92 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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… from the Neolithic layer's highest point, a gently sloping layer of lighter compact clay, which also contains the out-sloping Neolithic sherds, though to a far lesser degree than the preceding. The provenance of this layer is probably the following: It must of course, on account of its limited extent in breadth (see below the sections A-A and B-B) and its position along the dromos to tomb 602, have to do with this tomb. It is, however, of a completely different nature from the stratum that marks the end of the Neolithic layer at the section at O, i.e. upcast dromos debris. As it, as mentioned, contains Neolithic sherds, it is extremely probable that it consists of the cultural earth that was shovelled away when the rock was cleared for the cutting of the dromos to tomb 602. This was thus laid in a heap to the west … continues

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