Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 18·1934–1954

Bamboula, Area C–D

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

Scan 4 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 18 (Bamboula, Area C–D), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 18, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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Area C Page 3

70% plain mostly handmade 1 PWM I, 5 PWM II 1 sherd L.H.III A:2B/ Sh 499 4 " White Slip II 20 " Base Ring 28 " Wash ware 2 " Monochrome (1 plain relief) 55 decorated sherds

B D(2) The deposit southeast of the mound, from 7.30 to 7.92 appears to be approximately contemporary with the chavara fill. It contained the following sherds:

70% plain all handmade except a few PWM I + II 2 sherds L.C.III Painted bowl ware 22 " L.H.III (Sh506, 10 sherds of Sh505) [inserted: 7 Lev. Myc., 4 not found] 1 " L.H.III, coarse tempered 1 " L.H.III figurine (F61) 2 " Foreign, dark on light 2 " Foreign, bichrome Sh 507 cf. Sh 716 1 " R.L.III 95 " White Slip II 1 " White Slip I 108 " Base Ring (3 with applied white, 6 with relief) 107 " Wash ware (G36; one with reserved band) 5 " Burnished Slip Sh 710 22 " Monochrome (probably others too) 7 " Coarse black burnished 1 " Coarse incised ware 3 " Red Polished 380 decorated sherds

C E(1) The fill south of the mound, from 7.07 to 7.96, belongs to the general earth fill southeast of the chavara fill. The following sherds were found in this section:

75% plain at least 53 PWM II ` 13 sherds L.C.III Painted 11 bowl ` 4 " Bucchero, wheel-made ` 1 " Imitation Base Ring, wheel-made ` 9 " L.H.III (G37; 3 and perhaps 4 more joins of Sh505), III A:2/B + ` 1 " R.L.III 1 III Coar CyproMyc. ` 4 " Foreign painted Sh 716 ` 63 " White Slip II ` 5 " White Slip I _`_104 " Base Ring (one animal leg; two incised) ` 55 " Wash ware ` 2 " Burnished Slip Burnished ware ` 2 " Light burnished (12) 2 " Monochrome ` 5 " Red Polished 270 decorated sherds

Margin left of lines 2-5: S99 S89-91

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

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