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 44 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 44 of 176

Almost all of the forms: the bowl, tall pyxis and jugs are in marble, although the horizontal string-hole is there. Preferred (4876, 4759–61, 4763–64 4791!, 4788, 4870 (bowl), 4772 (bowl with string-hole) etc also a few fragments with spiral, sling lines

2. Syros A.E. 1899.

A Black ware

sometimes grey clay, but also brown in the core, and with black slip, polished.

Form

1.Bowl, shallow with flat base and at rim

Profile of a shallow bowl with flat base
DrawingProfile of a shallow bowl with flat base

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