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 40 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 298 Wheel-made painted. Orange clay with some sand. Pale straw-coloured surface. Firm matt paint, raw brown where thin, grey-brown where thick. Tr. 2: E, 0.50-0.70. (Unit 5). (1-3-37)

Sh 299 Black slip with incisions + relief. Tr. 9, Intrusions. (20-4-37)

Sh 300 Kaloriziki style (5 joins) Shoulder of jug like P28 Somewhat warm brown clay with fine sand and some lime. Apparently vertically smoothed. Matt dark grey paint on neck-ring. Tr. 2, Disturbed earth in units 8, 9, 11, 13, etc. (26-3-37)

Sh 301 Wheel-made plain ware. Warm brown clay, cream on surface, with a very little fine sand. Sherd perhaps from squat false-necked jar. With Sh 300.

Sh 302 Light-grey neolithic. Like Sh 202, but brighter red slip. With Sh 300.

Sh 303 LH III Firm clay with fine sand, yellowish grey inside, warm brown outside. Cream surface, with some small pits but leather-burnish. Lustrous brown-black paint. Tr. 10, Unstratified.

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 298Sherd
  • Sh 299Sherd
  • Sh 300Shoulder of jug
  • Sh 301Sherd
  • Sh 302Sherd
  • Sh 303Sherd

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