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 58 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 58 of 176

Continued from scan 57

… imitated and imported Kamares / and red and black (this M.C. III) Late I–II Imported and imitated L.M. o L.H I–II the paint sometimes glossy sometimes matt Also red and black.

but the clay local, coarse.

The forms in Middle hang together with those in Early: bowl with bent in rim, cup, askos beaked spout-jug, whereas the jar with lace-hole and neck disappears. And new forms come in. Chiefly from Crete and the mainland: Kamares forms, minyan and Aegina pithoi;

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