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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 8·Undated

Bamboula, Sherds (Sh729–Sh815)

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 14 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 8 (Bamboula, Sherds (Sh729–Sh815)), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 13, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 14 of 76

Sh 736 B 791

Inscribed sherd

PWM I C

1954-51

Fragment of handle just below bend. Clay slate gray, hard and gritty with many particles and airholes. Fired gray green on surface, part of which is corroded away. Incised on the middle of the handle with a fairly sharp instrument is the following character:

(2,4×1,5cm)

Drawing: incised character on sherd

Ht. of frag. 4,9cm Width 3,2cm

BAM Between T. 13 and 17 April 1939 " " no notebook ref.

Photograph

Margin right: Neg 65222

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

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