Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 10·Undated

Bamboula, Pottery (P2842–P2907)

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 36 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 10 (Bamboula, Pottery (P2842–P2907)), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 36 of 100

P2873 B594 Side-spout jug LCM Dec.

Wheelmade Complete except for most of lip and tip of spout Clay light red-brown, pocky, and gritty with large white particles; fired reddish brown over most of surface, though with a tendency to greenish brown in spots. Paint deep matt purple brown. Rather wide disc base scarcely set off from sagging ovoid body. Prominent neck-ridge. Concave narrow neck to (probably) flaring (round ?) mouth. Rectangular handle awkwardly attached to shoulder and to lip. Very stoutly pointed spout upcurted close to neck.

1954-38

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

P2873Side-spout jug · Tomb 40

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