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 43 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 43 of 76

Sh 755LC II C (?)
B 1576level of hearths
Frag. of bichrome lampholder

Clay brownish buff, gritty with much fine sand, a few large coarse white particles. Paint washy matt black and crimson red. Preserved is frag. of base of a hanging type lamp or lampholder (cf. P786). The part preserved has two bored holes for attaching to wall but scarcely any of the cup-like part for the actual lighting. Two broad band strokes are painted on the stub of the cup-like part outside. The inside of the wall attachment is bordered by two black stripes wall attachment is bordered by a thin stripe. Parallel to curve at rectangles by a thin stripe.

[photograph]P954-45

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 755Frag. of bichrome lampholder · Bamboula (Episkopi)

Also mentionedP786

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