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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 2 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 2 of 100

Sh 664 B 883

Inscribed sherd

1954-31

Upper portion of handle with small joining portion of rim of a jug. Clay creamy buff with much fine black sand. Wall of jug (i.e. neck wall) apparently very thin. It is not certain whether wheelmade or not. Inscribed with fairly sharp instrument while clay leather hard in following sign

greatest length of frag. 7, 1 cm.

Drawing: cross

1, 2 cm × 1, 9 cm.

BAM T 29 24-4-39 JTD viii, 117

Neg 65222

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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