Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 23·1934–1954

Bamboula, Pottery classification

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 15 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 23 (Bamboula, Pottery classification), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 23, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 15 of 31

II A 5 d

10)triangles

11)herringbone

12)zig-zags

13)checkerboard

14)snake pattern. Maybe from murex

15)stacked loops and trees of T.17 bowl. If so, Late

16)Fish possibly Mycenaean, but not too close. Fish

17)Stag might be Greek, but maybe eastern. The pot may be imported

e.Non-Mycenaean motifs

1)tree eastern

2)Fish and stag possibly also eastern, or local

f.Filling of designs all Mycenaean

1)dotting

2)hatching

3)chevrons

4)zig-zags

5)bars

6)solid

6. Summary

a. Mycenaean basis, both of shapes and decoration, used without much talent in a native way. Non-Myc. types. 1) This is typical of the break-up into local schools characteristic of the panel style period b. Chronological ties with developed panel style. No Granary types. Though the stacked arcs of T.17 bowl suggest Close style, the solution is probably to be sought elsewhere.

B. L.C.IIIB. Sub-Mycenaean proper. Re-entry into Greek sphere. Granary and sub-Mycenaean influence strong. Some L.C.IIIA types continue. Many Mycenaean shapes in ware to be explained as survivals in Cyprus from Greece in Granary period. But rather than as importations from Greece in Granary period. But all different trends worked on each other, and fused to produce a typical Cypriote style. 1. At first only a few L.C.IIIB types among primarily L.C.III A wares. B types become more common as time goes on, and surviving A types are gradually transformed.

2.T.33 earliest.

a.Coarse ware as before, but feet more common.

b.Small jug with handle to rim only new shape

c.Gradual abandonning of panel style in favour of zonesstyle

1)bands return in early geometric

d.Small jug quite Mycenaean

e.Dark belly probably shows granary influence

f.Bowls direct outgrowth of L.C.IIIA

1)deeper

2)development of high feet

g.Patterns about as before.

1)Only streamer triangles new

2)New influence to be seen in arrangement of designs rather than in patterns themselves

3.T.26A next in date

a.Two imported Granary style pots. Not the latest

b.L.C.IIIA types: Bowls (pl.I)

2)trefoil jug (I 79)

3)plain-mouthed jugs (I85)

4)feeding-bottle (I23)

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

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