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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 28 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 28 of 101

P2801 B764 not Drawn Two handed (?) Amphoroid Cräter h-m coarse (LC II ?) 4854 - 40 Clay, light brownish tuff with much black sand. Fired to an. attractive creamy color at surface. Occasional large impurities messing: missing back and part of one side. Preserved is a considerable portion of one side showing rim, neck, handle and much of body but not base. Rim Handle is flattened, slopes down slightly and overhangs slightly. Neck is somewhat downturning and has a distinct bulge in the middle (cf. ware illustrated vases). Neck set off from body by a sharp pronounced ridge. Strap handle from rim to shoulder, which is rather steep and short so that body probably had a fat ovoid shape.

PH 23.5cm.Greatest Diam. of belly 31.7cm.
2632.2cm.
Handmade

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

  • P2801 (number uncertain)Two handed (?) Amphoroid Cräternumber uncertain

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