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Object cards·PU-Mu 1050, Box 14, folder 16·Undated

Bamboula, Sherd bags by excavation unit (16 of 16)

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 16 of object cards PU-Mu 1050, Box 14, folder 16 (Bamboula, Sherd bags by excavation unit (16 of 16)), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 14, folder 16, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 16 of 128

BAM Between T. 13 + T. 17 Card 1 April 1939

1/2 gunney sack with this ticket contained 3 untied but filled smaller sacks, one marked T12 white slip, another T12 misc. (q.v.) Obviously too much reliance may not be had in the integrity of the contents, which may at least be much mixed up.

In the gunney sack itself were pithoi, heavy handmade ware and 27 PW II Also:

5 sherds White Wash 44 " BR (including Tube bucchero) 20 " WS II 11 " LC III Dec. bowl .

DISCARDED

3 sherds Myc. II B/C 1 " RL III. P2845 1 fragmentary RL III Flask Sh 735 1 " Protowhite(?) bowl 1 deeply profiled rim of Roman (?) strange for Sh 736 1 inscribed sherd

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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Recorded (3)

Also mentionedP744

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