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 46 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.

Page -45-Scan 46 of 62

<u>Bamboula</u>

Sh 333 | Brown burnished sherds of wide-mouthed jug (?) Hard deep chocolate paint with some dark sand. Upper rim not burnished; rest accident imperfectly burnished. Hand-made. Tr. 4, Unit 1, 9.23-9.40 9.40-9.53 9.47-9.53 (9 sherds), and 9.53-9.67 (7 sherds) (23+26-3-37)

Sh 334 | Pseudo-Mycenaean (L.C. III). Sherd of shoulder (?), with horizontal herring bone. Pale green clay with fine sand, med. hard. Firm deep grey paint, almost lustrous. Slightly crackled. Conceivably L.H. III, but most unlikely. Tr. 4, Unit 1, 9.23-9.40 9.47-9.53 (23-3-37)

Sh 335 | very similar to 357 Pseudo-Myc. (L.C. III) Bowl base. Softish light brown clay, slightly grey core. Firm matt paint; streaky, brown to grey outside; red inside. With Sh 334

Sh 336 | Hand-made (?) Painted. Hard clay with sand and grits, yellowish-green outside, pinker inside. Enduit greenish. Firm slightly lustrous paint, olive to dark grey, slightly crackled. With Sh. 334

Sh 337 | <u>LH III</u> (or conceivably Pseudo Myc) Base of bowl. Clean pinkish-brown clay. Slightly lustrous paint, dark grey outside, Myc. red inside. With Sh. 334.

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Sh 333. Join in Tr. 4, Unit 10, 9.89- (23-3-37) 333 c - Tr. 4, 0.20 - {0.40 \0.70 (4-3-37) 333 d - " A-E, 0.40 \0.70} - 0.80 (4-3-37) 333 e - " Next, 0.20-0.40 (5-3-37) 333 f. Tr. 4, Top-soil into. (18-3-37)

certainly wheel-made LC III?

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 333Sherds of wide-mouthed jug (?)
  • Sh 334Sherd of shoulder (?)
  • Sh 335Bowl base
  • Sh 336Sherd
  • Sh 337Base of bowl

Also mentionedSh 334, Sh 357

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