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 40 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 40 of 76

Sh 753 B-343

Bamboula ware bowl Burnished Slip

Wheelmade (?) Clay light gray brown with many fine grits. Slip pink to reddish brown, on the interior appears to have been burnished by wheel then crossmarked by hand; Exterior appears to have been much more sparsely slipped and shows no positive signs of burnish. Preserved is considerable frag. of rim and floor of a shallow bowl, walls taper markedly in thickness to rim which is essentially plain though slightly undercut on the exterior and incurving. greatest PD 16.8 cm. " PH 5 cm

65 figures hard to read~~struck~~ 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

Sh 753Bowl fragment

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