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 3 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 3 of 3

nose zone. Ears, nose, chicks - mouth daubed red. Two chains in a cross neck. Seam to cross between breasts and then flare from a tree pie on belly. Cround waist, running clear around: red band between 2 black bands. Thick black band around base. The underneath of which is also so painted. On back of head, Same scheme as trunk, except lower. Underneath the parallel lines was apparently an indication of a final tress of hair hanging down to base of neck. The arc of the arms was emphasized in back by 2 parallel lines roughly horizontal connected by short vertical strokes at intervals Hgt. 7,25cm Diam. of base 2,4cm Greatest extent of arms 5,2cm. Cigarette marked BAM well, 1939. A careful search of everything pertaining to large well (dug 1938-9) fails to reveal mention of this object, or indeed any object other than sherds (no numbers indicated). Christo claims it is from an archaic Tomb in Street of Tombs (C.). A well is mentioned IX, 52-3

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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Recorded

  • Figurine (described; object type not written as such)

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