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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 62 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 62 of 100

Margin left: (to be) Drawn

P2887LC III Dec. bowl
B486

Margin left: 1954-37

Wheelmade Complete but mended. Small chip in base. Clay dark gray green, gritty with some white particles, and probably fine dark sand. Paint matt purple black. Low slightly flaring ring base, slightly convex walls rising to carinated and flaring rim, plain lip. Rather thick but small horizontal ribbon handles. Paint on outside of handles, on lip inside + out. One broad ring about 1/3 down, on inside and 2 smaller rings about 2/3 down. On floor small closed spiral. Outside broad ring about halfway down. Paint around base.

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)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Recorded

  • P2887Dec. bowl · Tomb 40

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