Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 16·1934–1954

Bamboula, Area A Strats A–G

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

Scan 14 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 16 (Bamboula, Area A Strats A–G), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 16, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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AREA A STRATUM D House A.V.

The following stratification was observed in Stratum D in house A.V, and contained the following pottery:

D(1) Material in the foundation trench of the wall between rooms 1 and 2, and a thin layer of earth over strata B(5) and C(4) dates from the beginning of strata D, immediately preceding the occupation of the house. The sherds are:

70% plain sherds [handwritten: +12 PWM II] 4 " L.C.III Painted [handwritten: 1 = LC III Dec. bowl; one may be Bamboula white] 1 " Buccher o, wheel-made [handwritten: bl. slip buchero] 5 " White Slip II 5 " Base Ring 1 " Wash ware 4 " Burnished slip (Sh220) [handwritten: Bamboula ware] 8 " Red Polished, etc. (Sh221) 28 decorated sherds

D(2) The material on the floors, in the pits, and in and on the accumulation dates the use of the house. The vases were:

L.C.III Painted: 1 Bowl, carinated rim (P792) 1 Bowl, wishbone handle (P794) - not painted Plain ware: 2 Jugs, handle to neck (P765, 808) PWM II 1 Amphoroid krater (P782) 1 Pithos (P766)

The sherds were: 80% plain (Sh136) [handwritten: price cut out of plain bowl; pithoi, handmade, at bowl 33 PWM II; LC III Dec. bowl; +Sh155 +Sh136] 67 sherds L.C.III Painted (Sh137, 153, 154) +32 LC III Dec (bowl rim) 10 " Buccher o, wheel-made [handwritten: bl. slip buchero] 1 " L.H.III A:2-B 9 " White Slip [handwritten: 5 WS I; 2 WS II; others cannot be controlled] 13 " Base Ring 9 " Wash ware 1 " Light burnished 1 " Black Slip 11 " Red Polished, etc. (Sh219) 122 decorated sherds

D(3) The debris from the house walls contained the following:

80% plain (Sh135) [handwritten: at bowl 34 PWM II] 14 sherds L.C.III painted [handwritten: see note on sherd card; at bowl 7 LC III dec. bowl rim; me of these is Cypro-Mycenaean] 5 " Buccher o, wheel-made (Sh163) [handwritten: bl. slip buchero] 1 " L.H.III (Sh151) Cypro-myc. 1 " L.H.III, coarse tempered (Sh164) 23 " White Slip [handwritten: 15 WS II; 2 WS I; others not controlled] 19 " Base Ring 52 " Wash ware 1 " Black Slip 26 " Red Polished, etc. (Sh152, 167, 168a, 169, 399, 144) 142 decorated sherds

Handwritten: 2.14 10:32 (10.33 10:41)

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

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