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

Bamboula, Pottery (P2908–P2938)

Text·

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

Scan 5 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 5 of 49

1934-38 9 P 2910 B 918 Unpainted bucchero jug LC III Plain

Photograph

Wheel made Incomplete, mended. Missing small fragments from shoulder, wall and base. Clay light brownish buff, compact well sifted and smoothed, a few coarse particles (white) visible. Low flaring ring base, pyriform body, relief neck ridge, slender concave neck with flaring mouth and metallic imitating carenated rim (overhanging). Rectangular handle from rim to shoulder. Axis of pot slightly oblique, giving leaning effect. Effect of ribbing obtained by crude, irregular ~~handmade~~ vertical incisions, or rather scrapings,

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

P 2910Unpainted bucchero jug · Tomb 40

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