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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 9·Undated

Bamboula, Pottery (P2785–P2841)

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

Scan 26 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 9 (Bamboula, Pottery (P2785–P2841)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 9, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 26 of 101

Burnished bowl (deep) P2800 a-c B 741

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1954-29

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Wheelmade Fragmentary, three different parts with joins. Clay reddish brown gritty, and full of sand and other impurities. All fragments show unmistakable signs of burnishing so there must have been a self-slip inside and out. Preserved is base entire with raised ring base (hollow underneath) and part of very gently upwards sloping floor, fragments of walls showing very slight break in curve where floor and wall and fragment of rim which is plain and vertical, but has three narrow and two broader grooves incised on the outside, at Diam. of base 7.4 cm. The bowl may well have stood 15cm. high 1954-27

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

  • P2800 (number uncertain)Burnished bowl (deep)number uncertain

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