Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 1·Undated

Bamboula, Pottery (P725–P810)

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

Scan 27 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 1 (Bamboula, Pottery (P725–P810)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 1, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 27 of 100

Frieze on rim with motifs at irregular intervals, l. to r. from handle: (1) triangle (?,) (2) 2 smaller rows of vertical chevrons; (3) dotted C) triangle; (4) crosshatch; (5) palm tree (?) with dotted trunk; (6) solid triangle (7) chevrons (as 2?); (8) dotted triangle (9) 2 rows of vertical chevrons (10) solid triangle. Under handle 4 vertical lines. Handle dotted outside, painted solid (?) back side. Inside of rim has stripe, nothing on interior.

A good part of the clay & paint of this bowl is absolutely a pastiche of the most usual LC III Dec. bowl appearance, guaranteeing its being a Cypriot product, though perhaps made by a foreigner.

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

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