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 56 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 391 | Ware VII?? Clay blue-grey in core with dark grey spots. Red-brown near surface and in one place clear through. Thick slip, mottled orange-brown to deep grey, flaked over place where clay is red-brown clear through. Thick rim of bowl. Tr. 2, Unit 4, In pithos. (6-4-37)

Sh 392Ware VIII? Ware much like Sh 350. but thinner & clay
lighter coloured. Tr. 2, Unit 3, Intrusions. (31-3-37)

Sh 393 | Wheel-made, painted. Firm clay with fine sand, light greenish, with orange-brown core. Deep wine-red matt paint, firm, crackled where thick. Scale pattern? With Sh 69.

Sh 394 | LCIII painted (14 sherds, 10 joins) Large frag of bowl. Firm greyish clay with fine sand. Hard slightly lustrous paint, dark grey, lighter where thin. Tr. 2, Unit 3, over N.E. platform. (15-4-37)

Sh 395 | R.P. Bowl rim. Thin ware, vermilion int, ext. streaked yellow-orange - walnut brown. Firm ware. Tr. 2, Unit 3, 10.10 to earth over floor. (10-4-37)

Sh 396Painted ware. Hand-made(?) of extremely hard
rich clay with coarse white temper. Ext. surface

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Sh 400

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 391Sherd (Ware VII?? rim of bowl)
  • Sh 392Sherd (Ware VIII?)
  • Sh 393Sherd (painted, wheel-made)
  • Sh 394Sherd (LCIII painted bowl, large fragment; 14 sherds, 10 joins)
  • Sh 395Sherd (R.P. bowl rim)
  • Sh 396Sherd (painted ware)

Also mentionedSh 400

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