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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 2·Undated

Bamboula, Pottery (P811–P995)

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

Scan 86 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 2 (Bamboula, Pottery (P811–P995)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 2, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 86 of 101

P987 B 1170

Photograph

"Pilgrim Flask" L.H.III

Pale cream clay with a little fine sand. gray buff Surface wet-smoothed. lustrous light olive Lustrous paint, olive 18-4-39 brwn to dark grey, consid- Bamboula, erably flaked. Tr. 21:8, Zs in handle bands. Intrusion

Incomplete; mended; broken in flakes.

H. 0.142 Diam. 0.114

Neck: 6-6-39 Tr. 21: "Megaron", Intrus. no. 1

Bull's eye concentric on sides, zig-zag vertically in handle zones. Paint on neck and handles, rather un-systematically applied.

Photograph

4854-47

Photo C-136

Perfect spherical shape raised disc base, short narrow neck, flaring rim, twin 'f' handles

cf. VP p. 93 "discarded by tomb diggers". J.F.D., VII, p. 116:1

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

  • P987 (number uncertain)Pilgrim Flasknumber uncertain

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