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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 20 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 20 of 100

Sh 674 B1151 Painted coarse ware Myc. III coarse (?) 16 non-joining much abraded sherds of a pot, the shape of which cannot be determined, Perhaps it is unfinished inside and must be therefore a jug or jar. Wheel made Dark buff clay, fired orange buff at surface, soft and crumbly, full of fairly large grit, some of which might be sherd temper. Paint now matt though it may at one time have had some lustre. orange-red similar to mycenean red. Design on pot presumably consisted of large bands-

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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Recorded

  • Sh 674Painted coarse ware pot (16 non-joining sherds)

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