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 87 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 87 of 100

Sh 652 B-275 Base Ring I II jug handle Handmade Clay brick red but light in hue, slightly gritty, slip much worn but apparently slightly lustrous red brown to red gray. Preserved is fragment of jug handle with a small portion of belly way. The handle is made in base-ring fashion, i.e., its lower end put through a hole in body. At its base outside are two pellets © which may be imitation rivets, but are made in exactly the same way as eyes on figurines, so that some anthropomorphic significance may be intended. The handle is further decorated by a series of inward-slanting incisions on each side like cherrons except that lines do [photograph] [photograph]

1954-251954-27

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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