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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 11·Undated

Bamboula, Pottery (P2908–P2938)

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

Scan 3 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 11 (Bamboula, Pottery (P2908–P2938)), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 12, folder 11, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 3 of 49

9 P 2909 B 284Bucchero jugBucchero, h-m

[photograph] | Handmade Incomplete, mended. Missing most of handle, small hole in body, chips from base and mouth. Clay grayish brown, probably m stubborn, for there are numerous tiny pocks but few or no grits. Flahes easily. Rather thin fabric as shown by hole in wall caused by firing defect. However base and handle sturdy. Rich flaky red brown paint probably once slightly lustrous over the whole wide flaring base ring, slightly elongated spherical body, prominent neck-ridge, long tapering narrow neck,

1954-38

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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