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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 32 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 32 of 76

Sh 748 B1208 Foreign (?) ware like Wh P LCCM Dege

Photograph

1954.15 Wheelmade Clay pinkish gray to greenish gray at surface. Gritty with innumerable fine black sand particles. Matt much worn gray black paint. Presumed is frag. of wall of jug or pyxis (?) slightly convex in contour with trace of relief ridge near top. Relief ridge painted. From this depend wide oblique stripes. 5×5 cm. In shape and design greatly similar to Sh 706. But clay of Sh 748 much closer to Wh P in type though it may yet be foreign. neg 65216

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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Recorded

  • Sh 748frag. of wall of jug or pyxis (?) · Bamboula (Episkopi)

Also mentionedSh 706

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