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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 39 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 39 of 100

P 2732

B 1184Imitation Myc. JugMyc III

Wheel made Incomplete, mended, restored. Clay smooth, dark buff with fine light sand, slightly lustrous. Slip creamy yellow to dirty orange. Paint matt dark red-brown to faintly lustrous gray brown. Low mottled base ring. Shape corresponds approximately to MP # 136 (Globular conical) and # 137 (Pyriform globular) [FIG. 6] : short shoulder, tapering, then flaring neck, plain mouth with flattened rim, seemingly warped in firing, perpendicular handle from shoulder to rim.

Margin right: back BAND

Rim painted, thick wavy line on both of handle. Painted band

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

  • P 2732Imitation Myc. Jug · Tomb 24

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