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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 94 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 94 of 100

Sh 724Painted sherd

Wheelmade Clay buff, hard, well-sifted. Surface creamy buff and smooth but not lustrous. Paint slightly lustrous reddish brown Preserved in small fragment from wall of jug or jar showing closely set parallel wavy lines terminated by a straight line at right angles It has some resemblance to Myc., but not convincingly so.

2,3 × 2,2 cm

BAM 17.15:2 to 3.62

2-6-38SK VI, 135

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 724Painted sherd

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