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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 25 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 25 of 76

Sh 743 Sh 749 Myc. III A/B krater (?) fr. Myc. III

Photograph

1954-16 Wheel made clay. Smooth rich grayish buff to pinkish near outside surface. Exterior very slightly glossy light creamy color. Paint semi-lustrous reddish brown. Preserved is frag. from wall of fairly large vessel, probably krater though possibly jug, showing two thick stripes (around belly?) 5.5 × 4.3 cm. good quality BAM Tr. 11 well on floor 10-5-39 no notebook ref.

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 743krater (?) fr.

Also mentionedSh 749

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