Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 17·1934–1954

Bamboula, Area B

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Typed and handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 14 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 17 (Bamboula, Area B), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 17, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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(P 2800) with incised grooves near rim was recovered. This very similar to, though coarser than, bowls I have elsewhere called Kalorizilci grooved ware, which seem to be the predecessors of Red Slip bowls. A cross join to P 2800 in C 1b may indicate a disturbance of the fill at some point after the discarding of P 2800, the context of which seems to place it toward the beginning of the Iron Age.

1a. Sherds in water (above the floor of the well)

90% plain (incl. 19 PWM II) 34 sherds WhP I-II 2 " = Bl-on-R 28 = BSB 1 = BR 1 = WS II 2 = Myc.III 1 = RP

1b. The fill of the well from 11 M. to over the floor of the well

ca. 80% plain (at least 78 PWM II and 23 Plain White) 103 sherds PRWhP (mostly large amphorae) 107 = WhP I-II 110 = III-IV 89 = Bl-on-R I-II 5 = BR 10 = Wash 20 = BSB I-II 1 = RL III 4 = RP etc. 2 = Burnished slip 10 = Coarse burnished similar to P 2800

2. The fill of the well from 8 M. to 11 M. contained the following sherds:

90% Plain (incl. 110 PWM II) 88 sherds WhP III-IV (75 of one waterpot) Sh 762 10 = Bl-on-Red I-II 4 = Bichrome III-IV 1 = Myc. IIII 2 = Painted 2 = WS II 1 = WS I 4 = BR 40 = Wash 3 = RP 3 = Monochrome

Handwritten: Sh 717 assoc. with this group

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

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