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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 76 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 76 of 100

P 2895LC III dec. bowl
B-538

1954-37

Wheel made Intact but sprung and glued together. Clay neutral brown to café-au-lait in shading. Exceptionally well cleaned and smoothed, a few whit grit visible. Paint matt gray brown to purple brown. Flattened hemispherical bowl with small impresed disc bottom and plain rim.

Photograph

4854-45'

Paint on rim inside and out, a ring about 1/3 down inside and 3 rings encircling (directly) a finely painted, almost indistinct closed spiral design on floor. One thick stripe about 2/3 down outside.

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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