1937

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… I have been working in Mykonos on the stratification of the Bamboula site, and am gradually getting it into order. There seem to be four main floor levels in the L.C.III period, with slight rebuildings to go with each, and quite a general reconstruction of the building after the first period. Certain parts of the area seem to have been used only in the first period, the south-west rooms seem to have been built first in the second period; there are only a few places where the third period [handwritten: floors are] preserved, though many of the doors were closed for it; the fourth period [handwritten: floors are] preserved only in the first two rooms I dug, and there only in part.

In most of the trench the L.C.III walls rest on bed-rock, though there are some L.C.II pits in the rock which go under the walls. But in the south-east the walls rest on earth. I dug down in several places and found first a thin layer of earth which looks as if it had been smoothed out to recieve the walls, containing mostly L.C.II pottery, but with an occasional L.C.III sherd. Below that is pure L.C.II. In the very N.E. corner I found two pieces of L.C.II floor, with good L.C.II accumulation over them. One of these floors was of composition. They gave a great deal of L.C.II pottery, some White Slip ware bowls

Handwritten: on one side

The composition floor was cut through [handwritten: on one side] by the "Baugrab" of one of the L.C.III walls of the first period. On the other side is another wall, which seems to go with the L.C.II floor, though there is L.C.III earth against it on the other side. Built in to the top of this wall was our first considerable piece of imported L.H.III ware, the base and about ten centimeters of the lower body of a pyriform jar of excellent quality.

I finally succeeded in finding undisturbed earth in the area I was working in in the circuit wall, and found a clear L.C.III level, an L.C.II one, and perhaps even an L.C.I one; there is still a little earth over bed rock there.

Mrs. Broneer lent me some books and I have been doing what I can with the cylinder seals and the inscriptions. The latter are particul- … continues