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Notebook·000005·1927–1931

Notes on pottery from Troy, the Cyclades and Crete

Kept by Einar Gjerstad

176 handwritten pages in Swedish, each shown beside a transcription and an English translation, with the drawings on 79 pages cut out beside the text.

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This study notebook compares Cypriot material with finds from Troy, the Aegean and further afield. Its cover label reads "E. Gjerstad ? Notes, pottery etc. from Troy, the Cyclades, Crete etc.", and a page inside carries Einar Gjerstad's name and his address at Enskede. The notebook is undated; the museum files it with the papers of the Swedish Cyprus Expedition, which Gjerstad led, under 1927–1931.

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The first part records museum and reading study. Gjerstad notes Trojan pottery by inventory number and compares them with Cypriot shapes: a Troy II amphora "which heralds Cypriot influence", the two-handled depas amphikypellon, the beaked jug. Further pages cover Cycladic vessels from Amorgos and Melos, the development of Middle Minoan pottery, a Mycenae chamber tomb, bronze knives from the Swiss lake settlements, and reading notes on Cypriot signs and metal types. Most pages carry sketches of vessel profiles and ornament.

The volume continues with a second notebook, "Politiko (Tamassos), Necropolis, Notes, Find lists", describing the tomb fields around Politiko at Tamassos, among them Lamberti and tou Mouskou, and listing pottery by ware. The text is in Swedish, with passages in German.

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Sources

  • Göransson, K. 2012. "The Swedish Cyprus Expedition: The Cyprus collections in Stockholm and the Swedish excavations after the SCE", Cahiers du Centre d'Études Chypriotes 42, p. 399.

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The whole diary

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition notebook 000005 (Notes on pottery from Troy, the Cyclades and Crete, 1927–1931).
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Einar Gjerstad, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, notebook 000005, Notes on pottery from Troy, the Cyclades and Crete, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-000005 (accessed [date]).
BibTeX
@misc{sce-000005, author = {Einar Gjerstad}, title = {{Notebook 000005: Notes on pottery from Troy, the Cyclades and Crete}}, year = {1927}, howpublished = {Swedish Cyprus Expedition, 1927–1931. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, 000005}, note = {transcription and English translation ancientcyprus.com, CC BY 4.0}, url = {https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-000005} }

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition notebook 000005 (Notes on pottery from Troy, the Cyclades and Crete, 1927–1931), p. (16).
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Einar Gjerstad, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, notebook 000005, Notes on pottery from Troy, the Cyclades and Crete, 1927–1931, p. (16) [scan 147]. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-000005/p/147 (accessed [date]).

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Swedish Cyprus Expedition notebook 000005 (Notes on pottery from Troy, the Cyclades and Crete, 1927–1931), p. (16), l. 2.
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Einar Gjerstad, Swedish Cyprus Expedition, notebook 000005, Notes on pottery from Troy, the Cyclades and Crete, 1927–1931, p. (16) [scan 147], line 2. Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm. Transcription and English translation: ancientcyprus.com (CC BY 4.0), The Archive, https://www.ancientcyprus.com/archive/sce-000005/p/147#l2 (accessed [date]).