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 18 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 Kalorizikə 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

Handwritten: 2

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

Handwritten: 3

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. III 2 " Painted 2 " WS II 1 " WS I 4 " BR 40 " Wash 3 " RP 3 " Monochrome

Handwritten: 4

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

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