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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 89 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 89 of 100

Sh 653

B 1096Squat pyxisMyc III

Wheelmade orangish-brown soft clay with considerable number of airholes, surface wet-smoothet. Lustrous orange paint. One large fragment of side showing slightly curved shoulder, angular profile; one thick band at shoulder angle, another more slender on side. Near base of side same combination reversed, thin line above, thick below. 4 other fragments, one with join. Hgt. of main fragment 4,3 cm. Length 7,6 cm. Similar to Sh 370 which Daniel called LHIII. I should not exclude however the possibility that it is Sjögren's Levanto-Myc. shape # 14. The orangish cast of clay and paint suggests Cypriote manu-

Photograph

1954-25

Photograph

1954-27

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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Recorded

  • Sh 653Squat pyxis · Tomb 38, Bamboula (Episkopi)

Also mentionedSh 370

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