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Field diary·DII:2c·1927–1931

Ayios Iakovos

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Handwritten in Swedish. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 3 of field diary DII:2c (Ayios Iakovos), handwritten in Swedish, with drawings. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Medelhavsmuseet, Stockholm, DII:2c, Public domain (CC0).

Unnumbered pageScan 3 of 59

Red lustrous ware

plate with flat base and stilted rim 1200-1000. Must be wrong. Ought to archaic - classical (Courion) The whole Curion find (New road 1917) is called Late Mycenaean and is archaic) Some of its pots (amphoriskoi red bucchero II with concentric circle decoration is called geometric. Vessel shape-men with the cylindrical neck and the folded lip press them down in later times

Bichrome ware

Fourteen incised or painted signs/characters arranged in three rows
DrawingFourteen incised or painted signs/characters arranged in three rows

Ovoid clover-leaf jug with base plate and conical neck, and handle from lip to shoulder. Bichrome band above and below the belly

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