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 37 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 280 | L.C.III painted. Complete profile of straightsided bowl. Sandy pale-green clay. Matt brown paint, very thin save at top. h. 0.028 Tr. 2, Unit 27, [brace left] 11.16 - 11.20 11.41.5 - 11.41 [brace right]. (29-5-37) diam. est. 0.19

Sh 281 | Wheel made. Hard grey-brown clay, grey in core, with fair amounts of sand + grit. Hard almost lustrous dark grey slip. Band of white paint. With Sh 280.

Sh 282Matt slip. Hand-made? Frag. of base of neck
of large pot. Neck-ring. With Sh 280
Sh 283LHIII. Frag. from side of v.c. jar. Creamy clay;
medium-lustrous brown to black paint. With Sh 280
Sh 284Wheel-made ware with burnished deep red slip.
Sandy soft warm brown clay. With Sh 280

Sh 285 | Neolithic? Hard gritty clay, grey clear through. Incompletely highly burnished surface, int. brown, ext. red to black. With Sh 280

Sh 286 | Neolithic. Fabric as Sh 167. Tr. 2, Unit 28 East, " " [brace left] 11.32 - 11.50 10.98 - 11.50 [brace right] (27-5-37)

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 (7)

  • Sh 280Bowl
  • Sh 281Sherd
  • Sh 282Frag. of base of neck of large pot
  • Sh 283Frag. from side of v.c. jar
  • Sh 284Sherd
  • Sh 285Sherd
  • Sh 286Sherd

Also mentionedSh 167

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