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 45 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 45 of 101

P2811 B733Wh P amphoraMatch. 10m-12809

Margin left: No photo | required

16 fragments of neck and handles, too abraded for mending. Clay, pinkish-brown with much fine black sand. Matt sooty black paint, mostly worn off. Neck tapers upward and flares outward near top. Rim thickened and everted with slight profile underneath. Thick stripe inside mouth Paint on rim but design cannot be made out, perhaps solid triangles, neck zone bordered above and below by thick stripes, filled with running lozenges outlined and containing latticed smaller lozenges. This zone flanked on either side by 3 parallel columns of

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

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Recorded

  • amphora

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