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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 2·Undated

Bamboula, Bone (B)

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

Scan 2 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 2 (Bamboula, Bone (B)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 2, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 2 of 2

B 6

Ivory Fragments

PL 0.0525 Max W 0.028

A flattened cone of ivory, broken at broad end, pierced to depth of 0.016 at narrow end.

Linear decoration on surface: 6 roughly parallel lines go around the cone beginning at 0.018 from narrow end. A fine zig-zag running vertically still visible along a portion of the vertical break.

Bamboula, East of Tomb 12 Topsoil 30 March 1939 JFD VII, p. 42, no. 3

Photograph

B 54-48

4 frags - to be mended.

W-S-De/

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

Objects named on this pageBamboula (Episkopi)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Recorded

  • B 6Ivory Fragments

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