Bamboula, Area B

Continued from scan 2

… levels belong to this deposit: 2:21, strosis 3 (11.26/11.31 to earth by walls); 2:22, 11.12/11.25 through green strosis; 2:26, below 11.09/11.15; 2:17, 10.95/11.11 to bed-rock; 2E1W, strosis 3; 2E2W, strosis 3 and 11.68/11.86 to 12.21; 2E3W, 11.92 to 12.03/12.61; 2E4W, 11.80/12.19 to 12.59; 2:13, strosis 5 and to 11.45/11.77. The sherds in this stratum are the following: 80% plain (S102, G21) 12 sherds Painted (Sh478) 15 "" L.H.III (Sh225, 479, 480, 481, 484, 485, 486) 2 "" L.H.III coarse (Sh225, 490) 134 "" White Slip II (Sh480, 481) 8 "" White Slip I 112 "" Base Ring Ware (4 white paint) (Sh173, 226, 482) 138 "" Wash Ware (1 white paint) (Sh171,172) 3 "" Burnished Slip (Sh483) 8 Brown Burnished 1 Fused Temper 15 Monochrome 2 Red on Black 5 Black Slip 78 Red Polished, etc. (Sh174, 222, 224, 226) 529 decorated sherds (3) was a thin levelling strosis over C(2), and lay directly below the L.C.III walls or the thin layer of earth on which these lay. It is approximately contemporary to the last period of use of C(1), and probably immediately subsequent to C(2), probably put in as part of the same levelling operation. The following levels were isolated: 2:21, 11.07/11.15 to 11.26/11.31; 2:22, 11.10 to 11.12/11.25; 2E1W, 11.50/11.50 to strosis 5; 2E2W: 11.61/11.79 to strosis 3 and 11.68/11.86; 2E3W, 11.73 to 11.92; 2E4W, 11.72 to 11.80/12.19. The sherds are the following: 70% plain 1 sherd L.H.III coarse 1 L.H.III White Slip II 49 White Slip I 35 White Slip I 37 Base Ring (1 white paint) 4 Wash Ware 5 Brown Burnished 36 Monochrome Red Polished, etc. (Sh202, 212) D. The earliest L.C.III buildings were of the date of the construction of the earliest L.C.III buildings is determined by the material of D(1-2). Contemporary material is offered by comparable levels in the East extension, listed under D(3). (1) consists of material from L.C.III levelling strata under the L.C.III walls. This level was found in the following sections: 2:15 on stones just below 10.76/10.88 level of 2:19; 2:17, 10.94/11.08 to 10.95/11.11; 2:21, 10.99/11.05 to 11.07/11.15; 2:26, 10.95/11.01 to 11.09/11.15. The sherds were as follows: 80% plain L.C.III Painted 2 sherds Buccheró, wheel-made White Slip II White Slip I Base Ring L.H.III coarse (Sh463) Wash Ware (one applied white) Burnished Slip (Sh220) Brown Burnished Red Polished, etc. (Sh221) 17+ decorated sherds