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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 121 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 121 of 176

The Mycenaean is not much influenced from Crete, Late H. I-II, but typically mainland ware: 1 alabastron with (drawing) with palmettes in 3 zones; many pyxides with ivy-leaves and three-part stem or lattice leaves:

Three spiral and leaf motifs
DrawingThree spiral and leaf motifs
Three spiral and leaf motifs
DrawingThree spiral and leaf motifs
Three spiral and leaf motifs
DrawingThree spiral and leaf motifs

common inEuboea

all from the ivy leaf (drawing) on pyxides.

Bowls with raising handle attached to the rim (drawing) and with semicir. spout = Thebe basket-handle jug with tub. spout (cylindrical)

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