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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 90 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 90 of 100

Sh 721 B1559 Crucible (?) frag.

1854-44

neg 65238

Handmade (?) Frag. of wall of pithos or heavy vessel. Clay pinkish brown, coarse with small grits, straw binding. Adhering to inside is a coating of a hard greenish gray substance with lighter green, mottled, glossy almost vitreous surface showing deep fissures at irregular intervals. 8,4 x 9, 1cm. Thikness of wall 1, 8 cm " " greenish substance .8 cm.

BAM Lot 236 S. of T 19 Trial pit no notebook ref.

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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