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 96 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 96 of 101

P2839 B950 Two-handled(?) storage jar LCIII pithos

Wheelmade Clay gray brown fired reddish brown, almost orange, at surface. Hard and gritty, but particles tend to be small; stone ground. Incomplete, mended. Missing about a third of one side from base to mouth, including probably one handle. Plain flat base, fat globular body, short, slightly flaring wide neck, thickened, squareish ledge rim which has been turned down and outwards in overhang. Sturdy strap handle from shoulder to rim. Ht. 56 cm. Diam. of mouth 37, 2 cm.

Photograph

1954-31

65 figures hard to read~~struck~~ 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

P2839Two-handled(?) storage jar

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