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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 8·Undated

Bamboula, Miscellaneous (Mi)

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

Scan 103 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 8 (Bamboula, Miscellaneous (Mi)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 103 of 130

Mi 201 B1402 PTO

Ivory double disc

Diam. of lower disc 3,8 cm. Existing diam. of upper disc (approx. total diam.) 5,6 cm. Total thickness ,8 cm.

Incomplete. Missing about one third of upper disc. Made from one piece: a larger upper and smaller thicker lower piece marked off further by a small groove where they join.

Lower disc plain. Upper: four incised c-c around outside; at center: small hole and 2 incised c-c. Between these, separated by spokes with an incised line down center: 13 rosette petals.

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.

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