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 11 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 11 of 22

Circ. Wall (B)

27 sherds WS II 1 " WSI 28 " BR 56 " Wash 34 " RP 1 " Archaic horse figurine

Stratum IV is cross-joined to Stratum III by Sh 466 (joining Sh 467) and to Stratum D 2 (b) in Area A by Sh 531. Also and a fragment of an archaic horse figurine M 28, were found in Stratum IV.

V. Sherds of the remodeling of the wall tentatively ascribed to the sixth century B.C.

a. From the masonry of the wall

90 % Plain p, tw, and indeterminate coarse wares 6 sherds greyish black 17 " Bl.-on-R. 8 " Wh P 1 " BS B I (?) 1 " LC III Dec. 3 " WS II 6 " BR 7 " Wash 4 " RP

b. Sherds from the disturbed area back of the wall, over House VII. 4 and 5, House VIII. 2 and in street (?) before House VI (in Area A)

80 % Plain (some PWM II)

4 sherds Black Figured Sh 130, 375, 402 6 " Greek Black 543 71 129 " Bl.-on-R 136 " Wh P 6 " BS B (Iron Age) 3 " Bichrome " 7 " Pr Wh P Sh 131, 71 compri's D 3 House VI 47 " LC III Dec. Sh 374, 448, 449

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

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