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 45 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 45 of 101

mouth with bevelled rim. Rounded strap handle from shoulder to mid-neck

Inside neck and extending onto rim: four groups consisting of 3 dots flanked by triple lines. Neck divides into two zones by a dotted stripe just below center: above, 6 groups of 2 wavy lines bordered by straight lines and below 4 dotted stripes (all these designs vertical). At base of neck 2 narrow rings.

Shoulder has 7 dotted vertical stripes with one intercalation of crosses/x's. Below shoulder a band of latticed lozenges bordered above and below by 2 rings. This is interrupted below handle, which is decorated with zigzags, by a vertical dotted band to base flanked by triple vertical lines

Belly zone, marked off below by 3 rings, has 10 vertical dotted bands. Below this, to base, 9 groups of triple vertical lines. on base (contained by a wavy line) a cross consisting of triple wavy lines.

BAM T 12 5-4-39 JFD vii, 78 # 57

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

  • Jug

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