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 50 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 50 of 100

P2741 B-48 Red Polished III (?) Jug 1954-28 Handmade Clay light reddish brown with gray core, rather soft and thick. Dark red-brown to red-gray slip, slightly lustrous, incisions filled with a white chalky substance. Considerable portions of lower part of body preserved and mended together. Apparently a jug similar in shape to Gjerstad SPC, 112 #17. The belly is divided into two zones by groups of 6 parallel white incised lines, dotted above the top line. In the lower zone is an ample zigzag pattern done in oblique strokes running the same direction. Above was a pattern perhaps of chevrons, or a kind of

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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