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 44 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 321 | LCIII painted. Frag. of pot with side-spout. Wheel-made. Relatively hard orange clay with lime particles. Surface roughly smoothed. Firm matt dark red paint. Tr. 4, Unit 7, 9.52-9.62. (24-3-37)

Sh 322 | LHIII (2 joins) Frag. from near base or neck. Fine hard warm brown clay, light grey in core. Lustrous red brow Myc. red paint. Tr. 4, Unit 7a 9.44 to earth over [brace left] 9.49 [over] 9.62 [brace right] floor (4-4-37)

Sh 323Black Slip ware. BR? Rim of incurved bowl. Tr. 4, Unit 8,
to 9.42 = 9.55. (19-3-37)

Sh 324 | L.C. III bucchero. Wheel-made. Light, slightly greyish, brown clay with fine sand. Thick hard slip, dark grey with a brown spot, crackled. Tr. 4, Unit 9, 9.89 to [blank] . (19-3-37)

Sh 325 | LHIII. Finest fabric. Warm cream clay, leather burnish. Lustrous paint, black with red high-lights. With Sh 324

Sh 326.Red Lustrous III ware (Palestinian?) Sherd. With Sh 324

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)

By the field number written in the record. A number links to the object’s page where we have one, and to the Penn Museum’s record where the museum has it online.

Recorded (6)

  • Sh 321Frag. of pot with side-spout
  • Sh 322Frag. from near base or neck
  • Sh 323Rim of incurved bowl
  • Sh 324_L.C. III bucchero._ Wheel-made. Light, slightly greyish, br
  • Sh 325_LHIII._ Finest fabric. Warm cream clay, leather burnish. Lu
  • Sh 326Sherd

Also mentionedSh 324

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