Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 7·Undated

Bamboula, Metal (M)

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

Scan 84 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 7 (Bamboula, Metal (M)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 7, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 84 of 119

M 1024 B 1272

Bronze knife blade

Nearly complete but badly decayed. Mendef together from 3 fragments. Point of blade missing. Continuation of blade narrowing to rest blade in handle has on both sides 3 vertical lugs apparently cast with the blade. In its present condition blade is cigar-shaped.

Photograph

Drawing: knife blade with lugs and circles; labels: none

Total length 9,8cm. Length of blade to first two lugs 5,5cm. Width at widest point 2,5cm. Lugs vary from 4 to, 6 cm. in height

BAM T, 17 VII, 64

65 figures hard to read~~struck~~ 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

M 1024 (number uncertain)Knife blade · Tomb 17number uncertain

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