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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 8·Undated

Bamboula, Pottery (P2711–P2784)

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

Scan 35 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 8 (Bamboula, Pottery (P2711–P2784)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 35 of 100

P2730 B 877 Jug PWMI

1954 - 21

H: 21.5 cm. D: 12.5 cm.

Wheel-made. Incomplete, mended. grayish blue clay with finely ground red (mica?) particles. greenish white slip Apparently biconical globular shape with base ring, slightly splaying neck, horizontal lip with distinct profile, slender handle from shoulder to lip (?) Badly twisted and pocketed by imperfect firing.

Provenience unknown, found among miscellaneous Bamboula sherds to which no information is available. Very possibly, later than Bronze Age. no sherd say cut (mm)

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

  • P2730Jug

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