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

Bamboula, Pottery classification

·

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

Scan 9 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 9 of 31

2.

reflects the differentiation within Mycenean pottery itself into the type with olive green clay and black paint and the type with buff clay and "Mycenean red" paint.

I. A few sherds were found at Bamboula, all in the settlement, which resemble the indubitably Cypriote wares just described except in having an extremely compact hard fabric and a slight lustre. These may be imports. Sh 73, 81, 552, 560, 718, 737, 750 [handwritten: 639 638 662 620 1080 1098]

II. The following sherds are of Cypriote manufacture and of particularly good quality. [handwritten: 623 624 625 626 641 630 632 633 634-635 627 637] Sh 70, 107, 138, 160, 186, 191, 229, 242, 268, 411, 459, 576.

III. The following sherds are local Cypriote products. Sh 71, 74 (and 503), 78, 115, 123, 126, 127, 131, 185, 187, 190, 192, 193, 197, 209, 211, 238, 239, 240, 243, 300, 332, 334, 487, 493, 518, 521, 538, 539, 540, 739.

IV. The following less determinable sherds probably belong with those in (III). Sh 149, 188, 198, 241, 393, 400, 460, 478. Sh 288 may be either from a P Wh P cup or an LCIII Dec. bowl.

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

Spotted a wrong reading? Write to us or use alexis@ancientcyprus.com