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 49 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 49 of 101

P2813 B938 Painted pithos LC II - III pithos Incomplete, mended. Clay greyish brown, coarse and gritty with much mica, fired redder near surface which is greyish pink. Body and lower part of neck covered with a dull reddish brown wash (not fired). Present about 2/3 of neck and a large joinig portion of shoulder to widest part of belly. Neck is wide and flares upward to profiled overhanging lip. Clearly modelled neck ridge. At base of shoulder zone a frieze consisting of a continuous undulating line. Res and upper and lower borders of decorated zone incised. Body shape probably L854-35

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

  • P2813Painted pithos

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