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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 27 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 27 of 101

BAM Tr. 11 Well water 1939 JPO VIII, 55 BAM Tr. 11 well opening to water

Frags. Necroted from other sherd bags show horizontal loop handles starting from sides but bent vertically to be more or less parallel with the rim, a typical feature of Red Slip ware.

The shape has affinities with Iron Age Bamboula ware (cf. P 2224, 2241) which itself seems derived from red polished slip shapes. From the context however this pot ought to be earlier and in any case does not look like either red slip or Bamboula ware. Pithos, found LC III with incised parallel lines on rim. in room 14: Inv. 708: Floor 2; Inv. 756c

cf. Coarse monochrome wares like Sh 704, 702 and P 2825 which ~seem~ direct seem to be the ancestor of this type of ware.

Cf. P532 + related pots, P546

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)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Also mentionedP 2224, P 2241, Sh 704, P 2825, P532, P546

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