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 42 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 42 of 77

P, 11 vi (2)

from Hama which have both animal and floral or geometric motifs. The stratified seal from

Byblos have only animal subjects, in one case with a prism included in the frieze; likewise the

which -Palestinian representations have animals.

Although it was apparently most normal to impress seals on the body of pots, there

withare deviations from this rule. Two of the Byblos examples are handles. Some of the Hama

examples are rims. *

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

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