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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 58 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 58 of 76

54764

Sh 764 a-bB 252
B-172BR bowls fragments.

BR I | Rim and floor fragments from 2 separate BR bowls, brought to me at time of excavation. (a) fine thin hard grey metallic clay, well cleaned with lustrous jet black paint on interior and reddish brown to dark grey brown on exterior. less lustrous. Frag. of floor rising steeply to narrow concave carinated rim with inward sloping ledge mouth. BK II Two pairs of two plastic ribs rise vertically to rim on outside. Max. ht. 7 cm. PD 11,5 cm. L854-49 | [photograph]

L854-49(b) clay as above though fabric is somewhat coarser
and thicker. Paint bright orange brown to grey

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)

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