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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 7·Undated

Bamboula, Sherds (Sh663–Sh728)

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 100 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 7 (Bamboula, Sherds (Sh663–Sh728)), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 7, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 100 of 100

Sh 728Neolithic burnished bowl frag.

Handmade Clay gray to reddish brown, very coarse and gritty. Covered with a lustrous paint fired orange red on inside, reddish brown on outside. On inside obliquely burnished to a high polish, outside horizontally burnished, matter, perhaps fire wil action action. Black streaks may be fire darkening. Preserved is roughly semicircular frag. of wall of bowl showing plain rim at top and thickening to floor (?) at base. 6.1 × 5.1 cm

Noted by Daniel on sherd neg card: to be catalogued.

Photograph

1954-13

BAM 4:5 Intrusions 13-4-38 JFD V, VII 171

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)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Recorded

  • Sh 728Neolithic burnished bowl frag.

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