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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 91 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 91 of 100

Sh 722Foreign (?) painted ware

1954-16

Photograph

Wheelmade Clay light pinkish brown, hard, compact, fairly well cleaned. Surface fired (or slipped) matt gray with very slight greenish or olive tinge. Matt black paint. Preserved is frag. from wall of jug (?), probably just below neck showing vertical and horizontal stripe. A rather carelessly hand painted spiral hook is attached to the vertical stripe. 4,6 × 4,5 cm. Myc. III C or LM III ?

BAM 20 Topsoil 3/3 11-4-39 JFD vii, 91

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

  • Sh 722Painted sherd (frag. from wall of jug (?))

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