Bamboula, Area A Strats A–G

AREA A STRATUM E HOUSE A.V

A date post quem for the reconstruction of the house in stratum E is furnished by the end of stratum D.

E(2) The following vases and sherds date from the occupation of the house in stratum E, most of the vases from the end of that period. These were found on the floors, in the pits, on and in accumulation, and in the case of a few pots, in the wall debris.

L.C.III Painted: 1 chalice (P740) 1 bowl with curved sides (P742) 1 bowl with straight sides (P757) [handwritten: 757]

L.C.III Plain ware: 1 carinated bowl with wishbone handle (P744) 1 deep bowl with vertical handles (P756) [handwritten: P806] [handwritten: PWM I-II (?)] 1 jug, handle to rim (P760) 1 amphoroid krater (P770) + (P770) 1 vat (P810)

Sherds which could with certainty be attributed to the habitation as against the debris following the collapse of the house were found only in the three pits and in room 1. Those from the pit in room 2 were all plain; the others were:

85% plain [handwritten: 35 PWM II handmade] 11 sherds L.C.III painted 9 Buccherо [handwritten: handmade but thicker + of loose fabric than the buccheros] 1 L.H.III [handwritten: indeterminate] 2 White Slip II 5 Wash ware 2 Black Slip 30 decorated sherds

E(3) The wall debris of house A.V contained the following sherds. As implied above, some of these may belong by rights to stratum E(2).

85% plain [handwritten: (LC III Dec. bowl) (of basic 72 PWM II)] 3 sherds Submycenaean (Sh214, 218) 57 L.C.III painted (Sh132, 133, 134, 215) [handwritten: LC III dec. bowl] 7 Buccherо, wheel-made, incised rim (Sh163a) [handwritten: Bl. sl buch.] 1 L.H.IIIB (Sh145) [handwritten: 3 III B/c] 6 L.H.III, coarse temper (Sh146) 1 Foreign, painted (Sh149, 165, 166) [handwritten: 149 LC III dec.(cowl) 165 Cypriote(?) 166 - WS B(?)] 78 White Slip [handwritten: 4 WS II] 39 Base Ring 65 Wash ware 4 Burnished slip Bamboula ware 1 Shaved ware (Sh148) 1 Fused temper (Sh147) 1 Brown burnished