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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 3·Undated

Bamboula, Figurine (F)

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

Scan 23 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 3 (Bamboula, Figurine (F)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 23 of 31

F63 B1563 Ph

J.F.D., VII, p.98:40

Female figurine Firm clay of "Base ring" type, grey in core; medium warm brown surface, smoothed in strokes. Rich clay. Beak-shaped face, pellet eyes; enormous ears, each pierced for two ear-rings. One hand to breast, other to navel. Prominent hips; spindly legs and small feet. Incised decoration of neck, chest, and pelvis.

Complete save for two ear-rings.

H. 0.193 W. 0.066 Th. 0.038

20-4-39 Bamboula, Tomb 19, 1.80

Photograph

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

  • F63Female figurine · Tomb 19

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