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 2 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 A page 2

If A 2(g) is a floor, D. ammeno pit #1 and 2 inch mix ie slightly o/minnoda A(2b) The Material in the two pits, 1-2, and in the depression between these two, appears to be slightly more recent than A(2a); it is older than A(3), which crosses over it.

65% plain [handwritten: pithoi and rough majority handmade cooc. 1 PWM I(?) several coarse wheelmade] sherds "Buccherо", hand-made [handwritten: Sh 501] ...

A(3) The ashy earth which lay between 11.28/11.53 and 11.43/11.77 in section c accumulated between the time of the filling of A(2b) and the end of period A. The sherds were:

75% plain (one lamp frag.; one washed pithos sherd: Sh478)

A(4) The earth which lies over stratum A(3) and below walls I-II of Stratum B is perhaps building debris of Stratum A. Whatever its exact source, it occupies an intermediate position chronologically.

65% plain

A(5) The material from the bothroi under the L.C.IIIA remains in the central part of Area A is tentatively assigned to stratum A. The following vases were found: 2 vases White Slip II (P761,763) + P746-9 1 " Wash Ware (P751) 1 " Burnished Slip (P762) 4 " Plain (P752,753,797,798)

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

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