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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 86 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 86 of 100

Sh 651 B993

Red lustrous arm-shaped vessel (?) RLIW

Wheel made

Clay slate grey to grayish red sound outer surface, very thick and hard, with red lustrous paint, vertical burnish; now has washed-out appearance from weathering.

Tubular shape, heavy thick walls, tapering slightly toward bottom which has the shape of a low truncated cone. Well-preserved to point where jaggedly broken.

greatest length 9, 6cm. Diam. at break 4, 1cm thickness of wall 1cm.

Certainly in RL technique. Morph. clay is unusual. Suggests arm-shaped vessel of Sjöqvist fig. 13

BAM Vrypha tomb 1939 Boy 2 viii, 89

1954-25

Photograph

1954-27

Photograph

neg 65209

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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