Notebook·000005·1927–1931

Notes on pottery from Troy, the Cyclades and CreteEinar Gjerstad

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 109 of notebook 000005 (Notes on pottery from Troy, the Cyclades and Crete), handwritten in Swedish. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, 000005, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 109 of 176

Continued from scan 108

… or possibly a Cretan local imitation, while the other would be an imported Kamares, which however is not possible since not everything is dreped.

The clay is also in the hand-made ware finely levigated and brown in colour.

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The bowl with inturned rim is prob. Middle Cypriote.

1)varnished red round rim burnished

2)burnished black entirely

3)burnished red below painted along the rim with spout sometimes, base

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