Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 6·Undated

Bamboula, Sherds (Sh561–Sh662)

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

Scan 21 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 6 (Bamboula, Sherds (Sh561–Sh662)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 6, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 21 of 100

Chariot scene with to right of handle: two figures standing, in a chariot, one with polkadot' garment, about 1/2 of which preserved with polkadots on both sides of single upright spoke. The lower part of a wheel is preserved on Sh 58c; the upper quarter of a wheel, chariot, segment of dress, tail of horse (?) on Sh 78b,m other sherds reveal nothing. To the left of handle on Sh 78a is the neck and part of head of a horse and part of what may be the figure of a groom standing before the horse. Above & just under rim is a row of chevrons laid horizontally.

Shape & Technique similar to context of 2 craters discovered by Furumark AJA 1945, 534 ff. Decoration too worn to permit of positive identification with Furumark's types.

Tomb 16, VII, 108

Est. Diam. 36cm. Ht. at handle ca. 11cm.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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Recorded

  • Krater fragments (chariot scene)

Also mentionedSh 58c, Sh 78a

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