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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 53 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 53 of 100

P2743 B1175 Two-handled jug Myres III

Wheel made Clay buff to pink, well-sifted, fairly hard. Paint slightly lustrous red-brown. Creamy slightly lustrous slip. Incomplete, mended. Small ring-base (hollowed underneath with tiny omphalos) globularbiconical shape, neck-ring, narrow cylindrical neck with flaring rim. Two perpendicular handles from shoulder to mid-neck. Mouth painted inside and out with narrow reserved band on top of rim. Handles painted outside with stroke at brush continuing downward on neck. Stripe around base of neck. On body thin parallel rings between thick stripes just below handles and repeated on lower belly.

[photograph] 1954-25

[photograph] 4854-42

Photo C-115

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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Recorded

  • P2743Two-handled jug · Tomb 38, Bamboula (Episkopi)

Also mentionedC-115

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