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

Bamboula, Stone (St)

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

Scan 62 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 11 (Bamboula, Stone (St)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

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

Unnumbered pageScan 62 of 83

St 85 B 1538

Photograph

1954-47

Steatite Spindle-Whorl

H 0.017 D 0.014 to 0.015

Gray-black biconical whorl pierced by hole 0.004 in diameter.

Three dotted concentric circles incised above center, and three below.

Bamboula, Tomb 34 screening 17 May 1939 JFD VIII, p. 32, no. 1

Porous surface matt and lustrous. Due to acid in cleaning?

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

  • St 85Steatite Spindle-Whorl · Tomb 34

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