Bamboula, Area A Strats A–G

AREA A STRATUM E THE STREET Page 2

E(4) The following sherds were found in a stratum of undisturbed L.C.IIIB earth over stratum D(3) in house A.IV. This is silt and miscellaneous deposit which accumulated over the house after it was abandoned. The bulk of the material is probably of stratum E, though some may belong to strata F and G.

The sherds are:

80% plain sherds [handwritten: G14] [handwritten: Found 3 PWB] 8 Submycenaean (Sh138) (May be others under L.C.IIIB Paint.) [handwritten: PWB] 1 Submycenaean bichrome (Sh229) [handwritten: PWB] 2 Ware VII 54 L.C.IIIB Painted (Sh87, 139, 140, 141, 230) Maybe some of these are Submycenaean. [handwritten: Sh 232] [handwritten: same ware as Sh 232] [handwritten: L.C.IIIB] 5 Buccheros, wheel-made 6 L.H.IIIB (Sh86, 231) = Low Myc. + 1 Coarse [handwritten: ] 1 L.H.IIIC, coarse tempered 2 Foreign, Painted (Sh88, 142): [handwritten: same ware as Sh 232] 56 White Slip [handwritten: 38 WS I] [handwritten: 9 WS II] 41 Base Ring 75 Wash ware 2 Rusted temper (Sh143) or BR (C) [handwritten: ?] 5 Brown burnished 1 Painted burnished [handwritten: Sh 260] 6 Black Slip 30 Red Polished, etc. (Sh86, 89, 144) [handwritten: could be BR(C) or ware] 395 decorated sherds

The above strata consist of the following field levels:

E(2a) 2:21, NE ext., 11.02 to 11.06; 2:21, to 10.99/11.05; 2:22, 11.02 to 11.04/11.12 (11.08 floor).

E(2b) 2:E1,W, 11.00 to 11.12; 2:E2,W, 11.10 to 11.18; do., 11.10 to 11.30; do., E. of small wall, 11.30 level to 11.63; 2:E3,W, 11.32 to 11.40; do., In stones at E., to 12.09; do., E. part, 12.09 to 12.65; 2:E4,W, 11.30 to 11.48; do., E. of line, 11.48 to ...

E(3) 2:21, tumble E. of trough and in earth of wall to unit 17; 2:22, 10.87 to 10.95; do., 10.95 to 11.02 (two bags of sherds)

E(4) 2:25, to 9.96/10.59; 2:E. ext. (2:21N, 27; 28); 10.55/10.96 to 10.66/11.02; 2:2nd E. ext. of 2:25B (Unit 27), 11.00 to 11.10; 2:27, 10.74/11.10 to 10.94/11.36.