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

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

Unnumbered pageScan 11 of 176

Troja II

Pottery The grey and black ware disappears more and more and instead the red-polished ware takes the upper hand. At the beginning of the period the vessels are handmade, but then appears in Troy II, 2, the potter's wheel .

The decoration is incised, the painting has disappeared and the incision is almost always unfilled

Simple skeuomorphic ornaments

bands of lines zig, zag, wavy lines

tree ornaments, herringbone pattern

rows of dots, stitch ornament (drawing)

dotted bands (drawing)

Two parallel lines with dots between them
DrawingTwo parallel lines with dots between them

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