Catalogue·PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 5·1939–1948

Bamboula and Kourion Complex (trenches, palace), Sherds

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

Scan 18 of catalogue PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 5 (Bamboula and Kourion Complex (trenches, palace), Sherds), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 24, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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Bamboula

Sh 141. L C III. Frag. of straight-sided bowl. Hard sandy red-brown clay. Below + inside, bands of grey-brown matt paint. Above a broad red band. With Sh 138

Sh 142. Painted sherd. Thick ware. Clay Dark pink-grey, dead grey in core. Very hard + gritty. Surface has red slip (matt) and matt dark grey paint over it. Str With Sh 138

Sh 143 Ware VII. Frag. of bowl with flaring rim. Hard clay, blue grey at core, with darker + white particles. Slip not unlike Base Ring ware. With Sh 138

Sh 144 R.P. Standard fabric, grey core. Incised multiple zig-zags. With Sh 138.

Sh 145 LH III sherd of angular bowl. Good fabric. Dark Yellow-grey clay; lustrous black paint. Tr. 2, Unit 15, 10.07 [left brace] 10.27 10.27 [right brace] 10.41 (7-4-37)

Sh 146 Coarse Palace style or LH III ?? B 2 frags. joined Soft clay, warm buff in colour, containing great quantities of large coarse grit. Rich cream slip, lustrous. Bands Lines of warm brown paint, lustrous, mostly gone. With Sh 145

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 (6)

  • Sh 141Frag. of straight-sided bowl
  • Sh 142Painted sherd
  • Sh 143Frag. of bowl with flaring rim
  • Sh 144Sherd with incised multiple zig-zags
  • Sh 145Sherd of angular bowl
  • Sh 146Coarse Palace style sherds, 2 frags. joined

Also mentionedSh 138

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