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 47 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 -46-Scan 47 of 62

Bamboula

Sh 338 LH III Finest early fabric. Firm clean cream clay, light grey in core. Leather-burnish, lustrous brown to black paint, slightly crackled, olive where thin. Frag. just below neck of big pot. With Sh. 334

Sh 339 Black Slip Ware. Apparently no paint. Deep incisions.

Drawing: lozenge with hatched pattern] . Tr.4, Unit 10, To 10.20-10.33. (29-3-37)

Sh 340 LC III Bucchero (13 sherds - 8 joins). Clean rich pale brown clay. Hard slip, pinkish-brown to dark grey, much mottled. Tr.4, Unit 10, 10.03 to 10.20 and \10.20\ [bracket] 10.33 [bracket] 10.40. (26+30-3-37)

Sh 341 Wheel made painted. 4 sherds, not joining. Hard rich well-smoothed clay, light brown, pinkish on surface. Firm matt brick-red paint.

Drawing: wavy lines] panels. Tr.4, Unit 10, \10.20\ [bracket] 10.33 [bracket] 10.40 (30-3-37)

Sh 342 L.C. III painted. Frag. of bowl of type of P746??? grey-brown (burnt) clay with fine sand; int. not smoothed, ext. not too well. Thin matt red-grey paint. (drawing) Tr.4, Unit 11, \9.65\ [bracket] 10.17 [bracket] ^9.78\ 10.19 (30-3-37)

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 (5)

  • Sh 338Sherd
  • Sh 339Sherd
  • Sh 340LC III Bucchero (13 sherds - 8 joins)
  • Sh 341Wheel made painted (4 sherds, not joining)
  • Sh 342Frag. of bowl

Also mentionedSh 334, P746

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