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 27 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 27 of 77

...they add something moreover, to the brilliance of the Late Bronze Age culture of Cyprus as it is shown in glyptic and in a pictureof

impressing from current excavations at Enkomi.

Handwritten: ...

appears to be a revived/custom, involving use of exotic antique designs, found its expression in ordinary native coarse Cypriote pottery. This circumstance is the surest guarantee we could have that not foreigners of any kind, but Cypriotes themselves using foreign artefacts, were responsible for the phenomenon.

Handwritten: Translated by Advanced Study

Handwritten: Princeton

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

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