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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 28 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 28 of 176

Often a animal protome occurs on the handmade vessel. Moreover this ware recurs also in the VII-VIII cent. though coarsened. Attributed to the Cimmerians and has connection with Thracian and Hungarian pottery from the 9th cent.

In addition, painted ware imitation of the Mycenaean and genuine Mycenaean Also the red ware imitates in shape the Mycenaean 3042.

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