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 72 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 72 of 100

Sh 639 Block Slip Fragment of jug

Handmade Clay slate gray, rather thick, hard almost metallic gray-brown slightly lustrous slip, mostly gone leaving light tan even surface

Preserved is fragment of shoulder with parallel vertical punctured dots uniformly covering surface, 3 incised neck rings, portion of much thickened neck, showing parts of 2 incised, dot filled (probably) triangles. Greatest ht. of frag. 5.3cm. Thickness of neck wall 1,2cm. Limitation of Palestinian punctured technique on native ware (?) BAM E. of E. tanca Cleaning out trench Nov. 1948 LX, 55?

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

Sh 639Fragment of jug

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