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 22 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 22 of 76

Sh 741 B 341

Photograph

1954-26

Bamboula ware Burnished slip

BAM Tr. 21: 21(12) Tr 6.88 1-5-39 JFD vii, 139

Probably wheel-made. Rough exterior surface is too abraded to be certain. Clay greenish grey, gritty with many impurities. Paint rather bright reddish brown to pink. Presenet is triangular frag. from wall of bowl (?) int. burnished interior. Fabric suggests PWN II or even Plain white though if handmade it may be much earlier. 4,8 × 4, 2cm.

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)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Recorded

  • Sh 741Bamboula ware

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