Bamboula, Area A Strats A–G

AREA A STRATUM C Page 2

D1 C(3) Accumulation presumably dating from the last occupation of house A.IV in stratum C was found over the floor in A.IV.1. (2:28)

[bracket spanning 2 lines85% plain, some made on fast wheel from A.IV Many frag. of 2 PWM II jugs 2 E 2 W 11.45 to 11.612 E 2 W 11.30 to 11.63E. of small wall)] 2 sherds L.C.III painted (Dec.) 1 " Bucchero, hand-made 4 " Foreign, dark on light (Sh287, 290) white ill dec same pot 1 " Foreign, Bichrome (Sh288) LCIII Dec. (no doubt) 64 " White Slip II (Sh291) 17 " Base Ring (one with white paint) 11 " Wash ware 1 " Burnished Slip Iron Age Bamboula ware (?) 1 " Monochrome 1 " Black Slip 3 " Red Polished, etc. (Sh286, 289) 106 decorated sherds

Margin right: Tr 4:12 to 10.05 floor

3 C(4) The earth over strosis B(5) and below the lowest L.C.IIIA level covers all of period C. The sherds were:

70% plain 8 PWM II handmade 1 sherd L.H.III:B 1 " L.H.III, coarse tempered \Sh 726 prob. same pot as Sh 472 (stratum B4) andSh 782 2E3W further clean on 11.62 49 " White Slip II 3 " White Slip I 35 " Base Ring (one white paint, one relief) 37 " Wash ware 4 " Brown Burnished 5 " Monochrome 36 " Red Polished, etc. (Sh202, 212) 171 decorated sherds

The above strata correspond with the following field designations:

C(1a) 2:28,W., In composition floor (10.89/11.32) ^✓,55

C(1b) 2:25B, Fill in line of S. wall, over pit 2; 2:27, on \✓, 51?base of S and W\walls (3 and 3a); 2:28, Baugrab of wall to 2:26.,✓, 121 and 137✓, 68?/

C(2a) 2:25,S, by wall to 2:20, 10.70/10.94✓, 53, 59 to 10.70/11.03; do., 10.70/11.03 to 10 cm. lower

C(2b) 2:25B, in pit with big pithos (pit no. 1)I, 45 + 55, I,33

C(3) 2:28, "10.98" to 10.89/11.32; 2:28, E. ext., "10.98"I 63 to 11.32/11.50

C(4) 2:21, 11.07/11.15✓, 25, 45 to 11.13/11.18; do., in white below 11.21/11.24;^? do.,11.1311.18 to 11.26/11.31; 2:22, 10.97/11.10 to 11.10/11.19; do., [symbol: square with crossed diagonals], 151NW post-hole, below 11.1011.19; do., 11.10/11.19 to 11.12/11.25;✓, 39 2:E1, W., 11.3811.50 to strosis no. 3 (L.C.II stone fill); 2:E2, W.,11.6111.79 to 11.68/11.86; 2:E3, W., 11.73✓, 76 to 11.92; 2:E4, W.,✓, 89 11.80/12.19.1172 to intermediate level; do., intermediate level to