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 36 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 274 | R.P. slipped outside only Incised + punched sherd. Soft sandy brown clay with grey core. Tr.2, Unit 25B; In pit with big pithos. ~T~ + # 1

Sh 275 | LHIII or LMII ; Creamy clay with coarse temper. Leather-burnish (?) Lustrous black paint. Sherd fractured; interior gone. Tr.2, Unit 27, on west "wall", to 11.11. (29-5-37)

Sh 276 | LCIII painted; frags. of straight-sided bowl with cross-hatching. Sandy warm-brown clay, light brown on surface. Matt red brown paint. Tr.2, Unit 27, 11.16 D 11.41 S to 11.20 light/ (29-5-37) diam. est. 0.10

Sh 277 | LHII or LMII . Warm, brown gritty clay; cream surface. Metallic black paint, flaked. Tr.2, Unit 27E, to (11.11) = 11.47. (28-5-37)

Sh 278 | LHIII or LMII . Gritty warm brown clay, clean surface harder than above. Lustrous paint, deep red-brown, to metallic black. With Sh 277

Sh 279LHIII . Firm warm cream clay. Lustrous deep red
paint interior + exterior. With Sh 277

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 274Sherd
  • Sh 275Sherd
  • Sh 276Frags. of straight-sided bowl
  • Sh 277Sherd
  • Sh 278Sherd
  • Sh 279Sherd

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