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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 88 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 88 of 101

P2835Painted PithosLCIII pithos
B945

Photograph

1954-31 Wheelmade Clay gray brown to red brown at surface. Coarse and full of dark grits, some straw binding. Creamy buff paint. Preserved is most of neck and shoulder. Rim thickened with highest point at inside of mouth, quarter circle in profile, overhangs. Short neck widens downward & is set off from shoulder by a prominent ridge, repeated below at handle level. In handle zone, defined below by yet another ridge, is a wavy line in relief. All these relief lines are painted. Handles not preserved but of lifted horizontal type

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

  • P2835Painted Pithos

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