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 73 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 73 of 100

Sh 640 B-351 slip Burnished bowl Drawn 1954-25 1954-27 BAM 20:11 clearing behind 9:87 furnace 26-10-48 ix,17 Diam. of base 9cm greatest length 14,5cm Thickness at clay at base 1,5cm. all no doubt characteristic of Plain Wheelmade and P 2731 (a somewhat more deluxe, lustrous burnished ware) lustrous A coarse, probably local, decorated fabric akin to P 762 ally curving sides, thick walls Preserved is base of bowl, flat bottom, apparently very gradubrown and burnished, though now very lustrous Outside perhaps wet smoothed, inside painted deep reddish Coarse pinkish brown clay with black and white sand Wheel made?

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 640 (number uncertain)Burnished bowlnumber uncertain

Also mentionedP 762, P 2731

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