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CollectionGB 0231 University of Aberdeen, Special Collections
LevelSub-fonds
Ref NoMS 3286/6
Alt Ref NoMS 3286/10
TitleSqueezes
Date20th century
Extent20 boxes and 17 rolls
DescriptionSqueezes of inscriptions, taken mainly by Calder and his colleagues. Most carry some reference such as a place name, reference number, or both, but few are explicitly cross-referenced with transcriptions in the field notebooks .

The squeezes fall into four categories:
Materials from Buckler: 1, 6, 15, 18, 34, 35, ?36
Materials from Cyprus: 11, 16, 28, 31, 43
Materials from the MAMA expeditions: 19, 20, 27, 29, 30, 33, 37, 38, 40, 41, 42, 43, 45, 46, 47, 48, 49, 50, 51
Miscellaneous (largely older) collections: 2, 8, 17, 22, 39, 44

Almost all the squeezes of inscriptions published in MAMA have a pencilled number corresponding to the numbering in one of the notebooks. At some point, many of the squeezes have been reorganised in order of these numbers, with the result that one bundle may contain 3 squeezes numbered e.g. '3', but from dirrerent series and with no indication of the year of the relevant notebook.

This material was first surveyed by Alan Hall, and a few labels on brown paper or corrugated paper, reading "Anon" with a circled number, are his. A thorough examination was carried out by Alan Cadwallader, Flinders University, Australia in 2006; the details in the descriptions are based on his summary. Dr Cadwallader has based his identifications on the MAMA volumes, the JRS 1924 articles, and PHI.

Transliterations: the cataloguing software does not at present accept Greek characters. Fragments of Greek text quoted have been transliterated into Roman characters; eta and omega are represented as e: and o:
ArrangementThe squeezes were originally listed together with maps and other outsize items in the series MS 3286/10, in no particular order. The squeezes have now been moved to MS 3286/6, but they retain their original numbering with the substitution of series 6 for series 10; i.e. old MS 3286/10/1 is now MS 3286/6/1, and so on. As the maps formerly also in series 10 are now in the separate series 8, there are gaps in the number sequence of the squeezes.
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