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 32 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 32 of 100

Sh 681 B1036

Base of LC III Dec. bowl Lev. Myer. Myc III or local imvt

Probably handmade; no traces of wheel marks. Has thumb marks running in various directions from smoothing. Clay pinkish buff, well-cleaned, compact; few air holes. Paint matt orange to brown. Preserved is base: very much flattened torus disc, hollowed underneath; and adjoining fragments of floor. Inside clay color with one crudely made thick stripe at center. Outside creamy colored, probably slipped. Bottom seems to have brush marks, thick stripe just above base. Diam. of base 6.5cm. Greatest width of frag. 9.7cm.

65 figures hard to read~~struck~~ 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 681Base of LC III Dec. bowl

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