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 19 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 19 of 31

Handwritten: 4-

Handwritten: 3

D. The sherds between 7-8 M. are almost entirely Bronze Age. [handwritten: No kind? Greek mains? wide line]

40% plain 1 sherd Bl-on-Red

Handwritten: 5

1 " WS II 2 " BR 24 " Wash 1 " RP

E. There is a gap in reliable information ending at 2 M.

1. Between 2 M. at ca.45 cm. below the surface, in yellow and gray strata, were found the following sherds:

ca.80% plain 2 sherds Myc.III 1 " WS II 3 " BR 31 " Wash 5 " RP

Handwritten: 6

1 " LC III Dec. 1 " BSB 2 " Painted 9 " WhP 17 " Bl-on-Red 3 " Greek Black

2. Above this in red earth at 20 m. below surface to a sloping layer of packed stones were found the following:

1 sherd Bl-on-Red 8 " WhP 1 " LC III Dec. 2 " Myc.III coarse Sh 742 1 " WS II 4 " BR 21 " Wash 4 " RP

Handwritten: 7

Sherd bag cards:

A. Pit: in loose stony fill (outside) Baugrab; Wall Baugrab gray strosis to 2.00 (70 cm.); do. stone and konnos fill in rock cutting; do., Baugrab in konnos fill to lowest dug.

Handwritten: mut

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

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