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 34 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 F

Since no accumulation or floor deposits of stratum F were found, only the debris of the houses can be listed. Following this I list the material found in undisturbed silted deposit east of the inhabited area, which is subsequent to stratum E, andis thus assigned to strata F and G. It was not possible to distinguish between these two periods; probably the bulk of the material is of stratum F, which was the more important of the two.

F(1) The fallen house walls of stratum F contained the following sherds:

85% plain 6 sherds Submycenaean (Sh107) [handwritten: Proto white] 1 " " Submycenaean bichrome [handwritten: lust + cannot be controlled] 25 " " L.C.III Painted (Sh106, 383, 384) [handwritten: LC III Dec. bowl] 4 " " L.H.III (Sh105, 385) [handwritten: Locust Mycs.] white slip 29 [handwritten: 23 WS II 6 WS I] 10 Base Ring 29 Wash ware 25 Red Polished, etc. (Sh381, 382) 1 Bichrome figurine (Sh95) 130 decorated sherds

F(2) The deposit East of the inhabited area which is assigned to strata F and G contained the following sherds:

Handwritten: handmade, ca. 20 Proto

80% plain 16 sherds Submycenaean (Sh197, 198, 503) [handwritten: Proto white; forms Sherd 74 (RWh) which=Stratum E(2) in ml 12 RWh accounted for] 15 " " L.C.III Painted [handwritten: (2) LC III Dec, accounts for bl.slip] 5 " " Bucchero, wheel-made [handwritten: molten mica] 1 " " L.H.III 1 " " L.H.III, coarse temper (Sh199) [handwritten: Cypriote BR-ware] 2 " " Foreign, black on red (Sh196) [handwritten: ?] 2 " " White Slip II 9 " " Base Ring 20 " " Wash ware 3 " " Black Slip 16 " " Red Polished, etc (frag. of Sh167) 90 decorated sherds

The above strata comprise the above levels as listed on the sherd cards prepared in the field: [handwritten: III.151 IV.25 35.49.59] [handwritten: IV.65.69] F(1) 2:1, to 9.59/9.74; 2:5, 8.94/9.35 to 9.06/9.46; 2:8, 10.02/10/17 to 10.11/10.23; do., 10.11/10.23 to 10.11/10.29; 2:12, 9.95/10.15 to 10.02/10/19. [handwritten: IV.25.29] no ref(?) F(2) 2:17, to 10.45/10.61; 2:21, to 10.65/10.69; do., 10.65/10.69 to 10.81; 2:E2.W, 10.73 to 10.84; do., 10.84 to 11.10; 2:E4.W, 11.16 to 11.30 (two bags) [handwritten: IV.63(?) IV.65 IV.115 IV.125-IV.21]

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

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