Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 15·1934–1954

Bamboula, Area A Circuit Wall (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 10 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 15 (Bamboula, Area A Circuit Wall (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 15, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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Circ. Wall (2)

III Use of the wall during the LC III Period is attested by the following:

[red-orange pencil: TD A.] a. Deposit from just west of the wall. P816, M244, 528 and: 75% Plain (at least 196 PWM II) 139 sherds LC III Dec, Sh 467, 469, 553 1 " Straw bound bichrome Sh 468 (intrusive?) 11 " Black Slip Bucchero 1 " Myc. III 11 " WS II 9. " BR 16 " Wash 1 " Burnished Slip 6 " Red Polished

This corresponds to the LC III A period. Sh 467 comprises stratum III.

(b). Finds on a firm burnt floor covered with ash adjoining the stairway of II (b). Found in situ on the floor was P 2709, of identical style and fabric with pots found in early Kaloriziki tombs. With this pot were 2 sherds of PWM II. This corresponds to the LC III B period.

IV Deposit belonging to the early Archaic wall. This includes the fill of the commum wall between the northeast and southwest towers.

ca. 80% Plain ware (incl. at least 104 PWM II) 1 painted pithos frag.

160 sherds Bl-on-R 1 " Red Slip Sh 647 1 " Tarsus smear ware 59 " Wh P III-IV 7 " Wh P I 2 " Bichrome (Iron-Age) 5 " BSB III 7 " Pr Wh P 1 " LIME VII 90 " LC III Dec. Sh 466 Sh 531 (1026) Sh 537 15 " BSB 5 " Myc III Sh 536

Red-orange pencil: Cont.

65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain

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