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 27 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 27 of 176

Troy VI

the red ware begins to disappear and a grey ware with a black-grey polished surface comes in. common ornament is stripes, wavy lines zigzag. also hatched triangles may occur.

Common form is the the profiled bowl with high handle or kantharos, which both are developed from earlier Trojan forms in the Red Polished ware, but also correspond with Minyan and Matt-painted I vessels in Greece. Also the old Trojan jugs 3003 3039 are found in this ware.

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