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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 34 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 34 of 76

Sh 749Bichrome juglet (?) frag.
B 1234

Pre-g.

neg 65207

Probably wheelmade Clay greenish gray with many tiny varicolored particles. Paint matt dull black and matt saffron. Preserved is small fr. showing transition from shoulder to neck of a small juglet. Rather steep shoulder to straight or slightly flaring neck. Comparatively thick wall. Horizontal stripe where neck joins body and corresponding stripe below defining shoulder zone (?). Between these two stripes (?) a yellow stripe. Two vertical black lines on neck (black), a yellow stripe. One vertical black lines on neck 2 defining a small panel (?) filled with yellow.

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 749Bichrome juglet (?) frag.

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