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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 4·Undated

Bamboula, Sherds (Sh361–Sh460)

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

Scan 1 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 4 (Bamboula, Sherds (Sh361–Sh460)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 4, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 1 of 100

Sh 361

L.M. II Myc. III cons.

Warm brown clay, slightly deeper at center. Light brown surface. Lustrous vermillion paint, flaked. Coarse temper consisting of: (1) dark red-brown particles, not sherd(?); (2) grey particles, some fractured like slate; (3) white particles, shell or marble. These are all jagged, and look like a prepared temper. It is probably not natural sand.

5-3-37 Bam., Tr. 4, N.ext., Top-soil.

Photograph

1:2

Sh 361

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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Recorded

  • Sh 361Sherd

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