Report·PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 10·1955

Bamboula (…“Seal impressions…”) Benson 1955Jack L. Benson

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 25 of report PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 10 (Bamboula (…“Seal impressions…”) Benson 1955), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 3, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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II Summary -20-

The results obtained in the preceding discussion may be summed up in the following table.

ObjectStyleApproximate date of sealStratified date of sherd
S 102Babylonian17/16th century B.C.14th century B.C.
Sh 720Minoan16/15th century B.C.?
Sh 580Minoan-Mycenean14th Century B.C.(?)?
Sh 579Minoan-Mycenean17/16th century B.C.13th century B.C.
Sh 545Minoan-Mycenean17/16th century B.C.13th century B.C.
S 3Mycenean-Cypriote?13th century B.C.(?)13/12th century B.C.
Sh 615Cypriote8/7th century B.C.(?)?

[handwritten: not represent merely a ... ...]

Handwritten: This findings has presented no such sound striking fact. A small but no doubt Minoan Cypriote kingdom is seen to have existed in the 14th to 12th centuries B.C., a well-documented Levantine custom, which, however, had apparently long since died out in the region of its origin. Two apparently dead place types are fully in the same ...

Handwritten: In Sipiro hole the custom was practiced here at all during its heyday in the main land. Of course, new evidence may show that it was. In any case, there is a striking element of originality in the manner and content of the Bamboula seal impressions. Pictorial material of excellent quality was drawn from both East and West, demonstrating once again a thoroughly composed band of clay - to emphasize a new technique of rolling to seal onto a typical ...

Handwritten: The handle Sh 545 and the rims the frieze-effect, no doubt - was worked out. The handle Sh 579 seems to be engraved and inscribed adaptations of the practice impression Sh 579 with a view to imitating in a cheap medium the luxurious effect of metal relief work. Perhaps especially striking is the face that seals which had originally Considerably unlike, in other words antiques, form often to have been imported by Bamboula craftsmen (or their clients)

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

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