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 39 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 293 | LMII or LHIII. Flesh-coloured clay with coarse sand. Lighter surface. Soft grey-brown lustrous paint, better preserved than usual. Tr. 2, E. ext. (Units 27, 21u, etc.) 10.49 [bracket: 10.55 to 10.96] 10.93. (14-5-37)

Sh 294 | Wheel Hand-made (?) of hard clay with fine sand. Deep lavenderish-brown, orangey at outer surface. Burnished red slip, with applied matt white paint. Sherd with knob. With Sh 293 Same ware as Sh 196 + 184

Sh 295 | LCIII painted. Fine clean clay, light pinkish inside, light cream out. Thin but firm dull brown paint. Well-formed base. Tr. 2, 0.20-0.400.50. (1-3-37)

Sh 296 | Wheel-made painted. Firm sandy clay, brown, light pinkish at surface. Matt clay paint, med. to dark rust-colour. With Sh 295.

Sh 297 | Hand-made pithos ware. Usual ware with sandy warm brown clay & greenish surface, but a band & possibly patterns in thick dull red paint. With Sh 295

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 (5)

  • Sh 293Sherd
  • Sh 294Sherd
  • Sh 295Sherd
  • Sh 296Sherd
  • Sh 297Sherd

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