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 97 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 97 of 133

Continued from p. 95

… right next to it a massive layer of sterile chavara: rock debris from tomb building. From its top the Neolithic layer extends in two levels down to the line that is marked on the plan by meter 4, where it ends in a layer of chavara similar to that from which it started. This chavara layer belongs to a tomb that was not excavated, but the cutting for the tomb's dromos is visible in its eastern part both in plan and section.

The stratification of the Neolithic layer has had to be reconstructed within the part of the section which was cut through by the first 2 m. wide trench. The reconstruction is certain, possibly for with reservation for the detail directly above the the hole in the rock which arose when the roof of the tomb-chamber 602 collapsed. At this place the layers have perhaps bulged. Inside this tomb chamber which was filled to the roof with earth lay namely at the top a smaller stratum collapsed Neolithic earth (see tomb description)

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