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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 5 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 5 of 76

Min. hard red core

Sh 731LC III Dec. bowl wareA-D:2 VII, 1
B-567

Wheel made Clay light greyish brown, almost purplish brown fired thus or greyish green on surface. Gritty with mostly small dark, a few larger light particles. Paint matt purple brown to black. Preserved considerable fragment of rim mended from sherds from 3 separate bags. Thin walls curving at a considerable rate from base and re-curving slightly at rim. Walls slightly thinner at rim which is plain. Rim painted. Single stripe inside somewhat below

Photograph

Photograph

1954-14 Neg 65218

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 731Bowl fragment

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