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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 70 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 70 of 83

St 524 B1456

Stone lid (?)

Circular object in shape of disc with a smaller disc on under side like a phalange. Dark blue green, slightly rough-grained stone polished on upper surface, tool marks visible on lower. Upper surface decorated with a rosette consisting of a number of compass made, but inaccurately integrated ones, enclosed by 3 concentric compass-made circles. These reveal that the shape of the object is not a true circle. The center of the rosette is pierced by a hole going through to other side at the point where there would have been a Jumble of curving lines. On the rim are continuous incised oblique

L954-44

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)

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