Ancient CyprusAncient Cyprus

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

Bamboula, Sherds (Sh663–Sh728)

·

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

Scan 84 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 84 of 100

Sh 716 B1206

Coarse painted ware LC III Dev ?

Wheelmade Clay pinkish core to gray buff near surface. Exterior creamy buff. Rather gritty with fine black and white sand. Paint matt purple brown. Preserved is fragment from wall showing angular transition to another plane. Might be side of a pyxis or a deep bowl although the walls are almost no thick, (0cm) to make this supposition certain. Large lattice work design cordoned above and below by horizontal enclosing lines. 5×6 cm. Belongs to same pot as Sh 507 neg 65216

Bam Th 12 S N sec h 7.92 - 7.96 25-5-38 JFD, VI, III

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 716Clay pinkish core to gray buff near surface. Exterior creamy

Also mentionedSh 507

Spotted a wrong reading? Write to us or use alexis@ancientcyprus.com