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 88 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 88 of 100

Sh 720 Bl H 36 Pithos sherd with pictorial relief Drawn 1954-20 wheel made (?) Clay gray brown at center, gritty and coarse, fired reddish brown near outside. Outer surface pinkish brown with traces of white accretion with small stones of various colors Preserved is small fragment of wall showing, in low relief, one complete bull and part of another identical antisymmetrical bull in an attitude of locked horns. Behind the complete bull is the figure of a man on tiptoes, crouching or kneeling with arms raised straight against his side and holding head erect, somewhat in the attitude of one with hands cf. Excavations in Cyprus Br. Mus. Pl. IV. 4 (centre) c. Antike Denk. I Taf 8 19a Photo C 148

Photograph

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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