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 94 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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edge. There are no real wall remains thus.

One point to observe for the sherd materials stratigraphic treatment is as far as this section is concerned, that the pottery from square E 2's north-east corner and Z 2's south-east ditto cannot provide any stratigraphic information. Within these squares lies namely the above-mentioned "heap" of disturbed Neolithic earth.

The section at metre 3.

runs parallel to the two preceding ones, only with the difference that it is not extended upward (southwards) as far as these. It is limited namely only to the critical area around and in the Neolithic. The Neolithic layer is capped in its upper part here, as in the two preceding sections, by a hard clay layer … continues

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