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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 5·Undated

Bamboula, Sherds (Sh461–Sh560)

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

Scan 59 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 5 (Bamboula, Sherds (Sh461–Sh560)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 59 of 102

Sh519 B1030

L.H. III Myco. or local unit. Cypro Mycenaean

Sherd of deep bowl with curved sides. Pale vaguely greenish-brown to warm brown clay with a little very fine sand and some air-holes. Surface fairly smooth, but not "leather w burnish". Firm vaguely lustrous paint, olive to walnut brown, crackled where thick.

Photograph

1:2

31-5-38 Bam., Tr. 2: E3, W., 12.03/12.61 to 12.20/12.63

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

  • Sh519Sherd of deep bowl

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