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 77 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 77 of 77

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human figures and as if both [handwritten: xxxxxx] were extending their arms toward that pole. At any rate, they seem to worship the bucranium, a fact which supports Sjöqvist's suggestion that it was an epiphany of the bull-god. Even poorer in execution that No. 15, is No. 16 having which might be a lion [handwritten: X] and with some misleading lines/, but nevertheless done in purely linear manner, /reminiscent of the Egyptianizing group represented by Nos. 9 and 10. The absence of hatching in the body, however, makes it seem less likely that No. 16 belongs to that group are A different shape and [handwritten: xxxxxxxxxxxx] style [handwritten: xx]/manifested in No. 17 a terracotta stamp with ledge handle which has a griffin engraved on its square base. No suggestions can be made for the classification of this piece which was found in a context the date of which is also uncertain.

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

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