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 96 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).

Page 95Scan 96 of 133

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Pl. VPl. IV.… below. At metre 8 the layer is interrupted by the above-mentioned shifted-away cultural earth, which finally before the rock edge passes into a washed-shaped silt layer of clay and softened bottom chavara. — Through these three parallel longitudinal sections at metres 0, 2 and 3 the extent in north-south of the undisturbed Neolithic settlement layer its composition and its disturbance history. Its extent in east-west is shown by the so-called Cross section, which runs roughly at right angles to the previously described sections. Its exact course is shown by the plan. The western end is delimited in a characteristic way by the dromos of tomb 603, which here is cut into the rock. As usual it lies over the dromos and the immediately adjacent region … continues

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