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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.
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Scan: Collège de France, Paris, 34 CDF art. 153-1, CC BY-NC-ND 4.0.
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| 21.21 | Bowl (skyphos) in Mycenaean pottery | WellEnk. |
| late (III C1). Terracotta | 1918 |
| pinkish, with cream surfaces in places | -1,20 - 3,80m |
| places, especially towards the |
| top, hard, small bubbles, few (drawing) |
| numerous, white and |
| brown-red grog, fine, sparse. Light pinkish tone (especially |
| in the eroded parts). Cream slip, matt (perhaps |
| simple water smoothing). Start of one of the 2 oblique horizontal handles |
| of round section |
| Thick ring foot, with external ridge. Base |
| barely convex. Lower bowl flaring, barely convex, |
| rounded shoulder, upper bowl slightly truncated-conical, |
| simple rim gently turned outwards. |
| Decoration in dark brown-red to brown- |
| orange paint, worn, partially discoloured, matt. Interior: |
| two bands just below the rim, the higher one narrower. |
| Ext.: band below the rim and below the shoulder, spot |
| at the handle attachments. On the shoulder, pseudo- |
| antithetic spirals with solid centre, poorly drawn, whose stems |
| start from the band on the shoulder. |
| Restored. Incomplete. |
| H.: 12,07cm - D.P. : 6,15cm - D.M. : 15,56cm - H.E. : 6,6cm - |
| D.L. : 14,92cm - S.A. : 1,05cm - E.A. : 5,5cm - E.P. : 0,45cm |
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain
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