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 52 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 52 of 77

Margin left: Sh 720

[margin left: PM I 377 Fig 274 cf also PM IV Pt 2 564 fig 534 (cow)]

dated by Evans "op. cit." to "the transition from the middle to the Late Minoan Age

This latter example is particularly close in style to the Bamboula piece. One might also adduce the intaglio of a bull captured while standing at a tank, from _______, for similarity/. [inserted: in the expansive modelling of massive strength] The horns of the Bamboula bullock are rather longer and more graceful than those in the examples just cited. In the Minoan rendering the frontal stretch of coltsway so dear to Egyptian realistic feeling, is eliminated in favor of an effective spacing of the animals and a graceful decorative intertwining of the horns. Yet another example [inserted: exhibiting similar] [struck-through: essentially] style and by position similar to our bull occurs in a seal impression on an entrance passag at Knossos (PM II Pt 2 568 Fig 542 a). This is spoken of as an exceptionally large impression and appears to be of double cylinder with representations staggered. Yet another representation occurs on an oval seal from (PM IV Pt 2 [struck-through: 609 no] LM II - I

[margin left: cf. also on Vapheio cups Eph. 1889 Pl. 9 lower right for bull position & modelling (MP Fig 27) top right]

Vapheio cups apparently LM I cf. Chamber, 89.

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

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