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Tuesday 18 December 1962(Rain)
Morning at Eleusis, where I can examine at leisure the innumerable vessels, complete or broken, from the Iakovidis excavations at Perati: the overall impression is one of extraordinary similarity with the finds from Enkomi, of the ash layers from the reuse of floor V: bowls and cups of the Close Style and Final Mycenaean; the shapes, the decoration, the fabrics, everything agrees in the most frequent cases. There are, admittedly, in Greece, shapes not represented in Cyprus. The jugs with strainer spout exist on both sides, but they differ slightly in shape.
On the road back from Eleusis, a stop to visit the Museum of the cemetery of the Kerameikos (Ceramics), which I had not known
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain