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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 3·Undated

Bamboula, Pottery (P996–P1271)

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

Scan 44 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 3 (Bamboula, Pottery (P996–P1271)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 3, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 44 of 101

Drwn P1229 B-98 unprinted missing? Seq '39 2-10(2)

White Slip I Jug

Handmade

Ht. 26,5 cm (at highest side)

Diam. 19 cm.

Light gray brown clay, rather gritty. Light cream to yellow slip, semi lustrous, horizontally burnished. Clean firm matt paint from reddish brown to dark gray.

Shape not paralleled in Sjöqvist. Good and careful work, but notable for lack of interest in coordination of vertical patterns.

Incomplete, mended. Missing several frags. from belly and shoulder.

Flat small concave base, offcenter making pot sit lop-sided. Spherical, bulbous body, medium straight neck to flaring round

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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