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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 170 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 170 of 176

p. 307 sq. Minoan (Cypriot) signs on wheel made red ware: imported from Syria; a further support for the view that white plain ware is from Syria. Cf. also the letters on Syrian Hyksos ware in Berlin.

p. 308 A spindle whorl from Troy with a Cypriot script sign Schliemann - Dörpfeld, Troy p. 25 fig. 1 (Sayce) cf. Berl. Phil. Woch. 1891 col. 642 p. 309 (not) "Hittite - Cypriot" script in Egypt from XII dyn. in Kahun.

p. 311 Faience sphinx and Uskapti figure KBH. CLI, 23 p. 314 sqq. Cypriote bronze axe types. abroad.

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