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Notes (including pages torn from excavation notebook) and correspondence concerning the excavations and finds at the New Hospital Site/Sanatorium.
Copy of notes regarding Knossos excavations with lists of tests from 1935-1949. From an envelope marked "Knossos Hood + Smyth Plans of Palace with Originals" but presumably had something to do with the preparation Knossos Survey 1981.
Two letters and a hand-drawn map of the Knossos environs to Mervyn Popham regarding excavation activities in the 1930s when Hutchinson was Curator. The Little Palace/UM and Kephala are both mentioned.
Catalogue of vases from the tholos tomb on D. Hatzakis' land. Listed by vase type. Handwritten on 2 loose sheets of BSA stationary.
Piet de Jong's notebook (no. 15) with plans and drawings of finds from the tombs near the sanatorium (Graeco-Roman Cemetery). Also has notes and drawings from other sites (including Corinth-South Stoa and Vathipetra) and various misc. notes and sketches
Catalogue cards containing information on each site included in the 1958 Knossos Survey. Plus miscellaneous notes and drawings concerning the publication and conventions to be used in the text.
Excavation notes of the Kephala Tholos, including those of the tholos tomb and the trial excavation east of it. Also contains a short travel diary of Hankey's travels around Crete in December 1938.
Loose sheets with pottery notes and drawing of Kephala Tholos Tomb
Photos of the Kephala Tholos Tomb and finds from the excavation.
Catalogue of vases from "Oderint dum metuant" tomb at Fortetsa. Written on two loose sheets of BSA stationary.
Supplementary catalogues for Fortetsa Tombs I-VII, LST, Louka's tomb and OD. Written on 8 loose sheets of BSA stationary
Excavation and pottery notes of the Kephala Tholos Tomb. Also contains some notes from travels and sites outside of Crete, including: the Benaki Museum, Styra, Dystos, Eretria (Bouleterion, theatre and acropolis), Oreos [?] and Oxylithos.
Photo of a drawing of the Kephala tomb: plan and section (original drawing either by V. Desborough or S. Hood).
Documentation of the 'Archaic' excavation, from Feb. 22nd to March 15th, 1937 season. 49 pages
Archaeological daybook for 1938-1940. Including: Mosaic floor southeast of Basilica, Hellenistic wall west of UM, Tholos Tomb on Kephala, Geometric cemetery at Ag. Ioannis, Geometric cemetery on D. Hatzakis' land, tomb on Psilakis vineyard. 191 pages.
Catalogue of vases from Tomb 1 in Ayios Ioannis Cemetery (AJ). Listed by vase type. Handwritten on one loose sheet of BSA stationary.
List of objects found in Tomb 1, Ayios Ioannis Cemetery (AJ) Listed both by item and by number. Handwritten on 5 loose sheets of BSA stationary.
Catalogue of vases from Tombs II-VI, Ayios Ioannis Cemetery (AJ). Listed by tomb and vase type. Handwritten on 6 loose sheets of BSA stationary. Two copies.
Catalogue of small objects from Tombs II-IV of Ayios Ioannis Cemetery (AJ). Handwritten on 3 loose sheets of BSA stationary.
Catalogue cards for pottery and objects from Makritikhos kitchen.
Excavation notebook of Makritikhos Kitchen (KMA)
Notes on Gypsades Cemetery (GYP) tombs, trenches, and larnakes. Loose sheets.
Notecards documenting pottery and small finds from the tombs of the Gypsades Cemetery
Notes on excavation of the Gypsades Tomb (GK)
Beads and other small finds from the Gypsades Tomb (GK), in situ. Photo found between the pages of the excavation notebook (KNO 346).
Catalogue cards of pottery, metals, weapons, jewellery, and other small finds from the excavation.
Catalogue cards for the small finds from the excavation.
Excavation notebook for the Tholos/Hellenistic Tower. Some of the pages of the notebook had been cut out (these pages concern the New Hospital Site excavation and are now catalogued with KNO 1083, not the Tholos/Hellenist Tower).
Notes and lists concerning the pottery found in the excavation of the Tholos/Hellenistic Tower.
Typed draft manuscript, with notes, of the publication, "A Minoan Shaft-Grave in the Bank with Hogarth's Tomb (Knossos Survey 16)." BSA 53-54 (1958-59) 283-284.
Typed draft manuscript with notes of the publication, "A Minoan Shaft-Grave on the Slopes Opposite the Temple Tomb (Knossos Survey 152)." BSA 53-54 (1958-59) 281-282.
Typed draft manuscript with notes of the publication, "A Late Minoan 'Kitchen' at Makritikhos (Knossos)." BSA 53-54 (1958-1959): 182-193.
Single note card with notes from a rescue excavation at the olive tree planted by Eustratios Sarikis. Appears to be a robbed shaft grave. Site is opposite the Temple Tomb on the east side of Kairatos. Card is labelled KSP but it does not refer to the KSP site.
Notebook documenting Fortetsa tombs VIII-XI.
Notebook documenting Fortetsa tombs VIII-X and OD.
Notebook documenting Fortetsa tombs LST, BLT, Lower tomb Pi, II-VI.
Documentation of Fortetsa Tombs F,I, II, VIII, X, Theta, and Koppa. Plus a catalogue of iron and pots and notes on photographs taken in 1938 (additional one page insert).
List of objects from the Khaniale Tekke tomb (D. Hatzakis Plot) on D. Hatzakis' land by object type and by number. Handwritten on 8 loose sheets of BSA stationary
De Jong's notebook with drawings and plans from the tombs near the Sanatorium (Graeco-Roman cemetery). Includes plans from Vathipetra, Tomb V from Ailias Cemetery (per note from M.S.F. Hood stuck in notebook) and concerning the restoration at the Palace.
Notebook recording Fortetsa tombs IV, V, VII and Loukas.
Photocopy of a plan of the Palace, labelled "Key to Plan, numbers refer to pages." which refers to the pages plotting slide locations. The original document is part of a bundle of notes that go along with some 1,300 slides made in the 1980s by Steve Townsend and then later donated to the Ashmolean Museum. This photocopy of the plan was included with original drawings in an envelope marked "Knossos Hood + Smyth Plans of Palace with Originals."
Catalogue of pottery from 1903 season, with loose drawing (found within the notebook, now stored in mylar envelopes). Old Knossos notebook vol. IV. Drawing shows motif of vase 1 from NE House/Royal Villa, described on page 1 of the notebook. This vase is published in Palace of Minos II, fig. 239
Catalogue of pottery from 1904 season.Old Knossos notebook vol. VI.
Loose sheets (15) cut from a pottery catalogue notebook concerning Middle Minoan pottery (N.W. Lakkos and the Room of the Monolithic Pillars) from the 1904 season. Unnumbered volume- possibly V- with pages cut out of original notebook