Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 12·Undated

Bamboula, Terracotta

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

Scan 2 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 12 (Bamboula, Terracotta), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 11, folder 12, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 2 of 3

T 2015 Female figurine

Photograph

1954-21 Reddish brown somewhat coarse clay with black sand and some mica. Smoothed by hand, apparently without slip. Black and violet pink matt decoration. Front side badly worn. By shape, falls roughly into Furumark's 4(2) class. Lower part of body is conical, with hollowed out base, becoming tubular in trunk and flat toward top of high head dress. Complete except that one upraised arm is almost entirely, the other about 1/3, missing. Breasts, mouth, nose and ears indicated by small tabs of clay, one breast chipped, small depression indicates opening of mouth. On head above face alternating black, red, black, red, black line (starting at top): Eyebrows touching nose, eyes (dotted circles) in

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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  • Female figurine

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