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 65 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 65 of 77

Earlier occurrences Byblos, Fouilles de M Dunand 1939 Paris No. 3232, sepulchres 5072, 5073 5684; also 6050, 4512, 5019, 3081 bis Pl. CXXXIII All use flat relief

one frieze only

E-L. XII-Niv. II3232: 8.3 by 8.1width of frieze 1.6 cmfind with coin 1100 s^2, strayn. (upside down)/
3081 bis: handle17.1 cm highspecies not identifiedNumber of strokes / of lower 1.8
Lev. XXII-Niv. VIII4512: handle6.8 cm long.2 grazing bulls (or cows) between them
a person with one arm raised the other pointed down, apparently
looking back, bearded?Fish? one each cnr
XXIV5019 shard2 cm h. at stiff impression largest d. of sherd 7 cm.apparently an
antelope with long horns.
XXV5072 sherd8 cm. l.h. of frieze 3.5 cm. lion standing + an 1 head bug
crouching reversed direction i.e. upside down
XXV5073 [illegible] from neck9.5 cm 3 cm high frieze(goats?) / 2 quadrupeds going to right with
2 triangles as filling ornaments
XXXVII5684- sherd from lower part of pot in ordinary clay with flat bottom, ht. of frieze
2.3 cm. in monster 2 headed - goat + lion or assailed by a winged lion / at round end with indistinct object between them.
Surface -6050 - Handle red clay with calcium lime particlesl. 11 cm. signs
Weber Altorientalisches Siegelbildern Leipzig 1920 No 525 / Moortgat Frühe Bildkunst in Sumero Leipzig 1935) 61
Ref.Sellin-Watzinger Jericho p.97 Fig 66"Tray" - p.18-20
R.M. Engberg + G.M. Shipton Notes on the Chalcolithic and Early Bronze Age Pottery / of Megiddo p. 31-39. PEF 1934 Pl. VI-90-93 Ztscht d. deutschen Palästina-
Vereins t.XL (1917) p. 170 fig 3 + 7. + XLIX (1926) p.143 fig. 125

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

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