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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 66 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 66 of 100

neg 652/0

Sh 636. B951

Inscribed Sherd LC III Plain

on fragment of a pithos rim, situated 3 cm below the rim occurs the following sign, incised with a sharp instrument apparently while clay was leather hard

Drawing: vertical and horizontal intersecting lines with two small oval marks near the intersection; labels: The vertical stroke is 2,7cm. long

Labels: The horizontal " " " 2 cm "

The first dot is approximately 7 cm. from end of horizontal stroke in a nearly straight line, the second dot 7 cm. below the first, probably parallel to axis of vertical stroke.

[photograph] 1954-31

BAM CIRCUIT WALL S. 12-11-48 In flat stone level to brick IX, 67

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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