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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 6·Undated

Bamboula, Pottery (P1715–P2661)

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

Scan 39 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 6 (Bamboula, Pottery (P1715–P2661)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 39 of 102

P 1736 9 cm.

"Plain White Ware" Pithos

H. 0.46 D 0.248

Mended; piece missing from lower wall. Rim chipped away and one handle gone.

Clay coarse and brown with large white grits. Fired a little harder than is usual among pithoi from this tomb. Fired a rosy buff outside.

Narrow shoulder almost horizontal; body in double curve ending in conically pointed base. Two roughly fabricated vertical loop handles below shoulder.

Some remains of a thin white accretion wash over exterior.

Bamboula, Tomb 4 No find number 15 Mar 1939 JFD VII, p. 12

[photograph] L954-46

W-L6-C

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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