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 89 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 89 of 100

bound behind his back. The same figure recurs and a portion of a bull following. An upper register shows fore and hind feet of identical bull and feet of two antimetically placed human figures like that described. The representations are executed with a high regard for realism, with vivid modelling of joints and muscles. The bull has lowered head, left foreleg firmly planted on ground carrying weight, right foreleg taut and just about to take weight, hind legs evenly astride, tail swinging over over mid-joint of left hindleg. Penis and testicles shown between hind legs. Ribs (??) indicated

BAM surface Found about 10 meters S of SW corner of Tr. 16 no notebook ref.

12,3×4,7cm (dec. face) 3,3 cm thickness of wall

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

  • bound behind his back. The same figure recurs and a portion

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