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 16 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.

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II B 5 b

5)Krater-amphora (pl.II)

6)Bowl with wish-bone handle (II 18)

7)Bowl imitating Wh.Sl ware (II 71)

8)Bucchero jug (II 86)

9)Coarse ware

c.New Granary Style types

1)Jug with lifted handle (I 70)

2)amphoriskos (II 35) warts

a)amphora (Pl.I) . Related to this:

b)krater with false-spout (I:49,52,25,63) handles to neck

d.other new types:

1)One-handled cup (I 9) L.H.IIIB type. Some sherd of L.C.IIIA may be of this type.

2)Two-handled bowl (I 58). Possibly Granary, probably from L.H.IIIB ancestor of Granary type.

3)Shaft-handled bowls (I 38,11). Mystery

4)Bottles (II:82,44). Old Cypriote type

e.Black incised ware.

1)New. Shapes seem Cypriote.

2)Attempt to connect with Danube based only on colour

f.Decoration

1)Panel style survives from L.C.IIIA. Mostly on L.C.IIIA shapes

2)Wavy-lines and rows of triangles from Granary style

3)No dark bellies or interiors

4)No concentric semi-circles

5)No Close style influence, unless this is to be seen on the broad encircling band bordered by narrow ones.

6)No air-holes

7)Date apparently during Granary style

a)Amphoriskos and derivatives latest type, unless it can be explained as Cypriote type which went west. At Mycenae.

(1)Could be formed by adding of typical Cypriote conical foot to late two-handled curved pyxis, a great favorite in Cyprus and the east.

(2)No satisfactory explanation has been offered in Greece

4.Tomb 25

a.New Greek types

1)one-handled cups (pl.IV)

2)kylix with ring stem (IV:54)

3)Jug with air-hole. Replaces old type. (IV:76,81)

b.Developments of earlier types

1)prevalence of Salamis type of amphoriskos (pl.IV)

2)elaboration of pilgrim flask (IV:57)

3)Mycenaeanized bottle (V:25) This type in Dipylon

4)Bird vase has feet (V:58) This type also to Greece: Vrokastro

c.Old types still survive: bowls, pointed jus, buchero, etc.

1)interior painted (V:10)

2.Belly dark (IV:81,42,5)

3)Elaborate triangle (V:19)

d.Decoration.

e.Date: Clear sub-Mycenaean elements: ring kylix, late amphoriskoi, air-holes, dark bellies and int. Early 11th cent.

Handwritten: Tripod bowl (I:10) new from East.

Handwritten: animal vases

Handwritten: Beaded fibula

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

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