Bamboula, Area E–F

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… of our E.VII.1. Finally, seven or eight small hills are shown on the summit of Bamboula. Actually there are only two, [handwritten: separated by] [handwritten: actual] the long depression examined [handwritten: in] by our trench 11. One of the summits is apparently that where tombs 35,36,105-110 are placed. The other would appear to be that marked by the Archaic tomb 95. The Archaic cemetery, however, is well to the south, and would not appear on this map if it were to scale. We made numerous soundings in the area most closely resembling that to which tomb 95 is attributed, and found no traces of a cemetery. Rather there was clear evidence of extensive quarrying since antiquity, [handwritten: but prior to the em excavated].

Obviously, the tombs excavated by the British Museum expedition can not be located on the basis of their indicated relation to the natural features of the hill. The possibility remains that the natural features were added free-hand and from memory to a carefully drawn map showing only the tombs, which would then be accurate in relation to each other, if not to the contours of the hill. This too we were able to check, thanks to the certain identification of the British tombs 53,102,50, and 104. Numerous fragments of a Mycenaean krater illustrated in Exc.Cyp., p.75, fig.127 assure the identity of our tomb 17A with the British tomb 53, and through it, of our tomb 17. and the British 102. In our tomb 26 we found many fragments of a false-necked jar of coarse-tempered L.H.III ware, almost certainly that from the British tomb 50, illustrated in Exc.Cyp, p.74, fig.128. "This and the position of the tomb justifies the equation. Finally the well discovered in our trench 19 is the same which is picturesquely labelled tomb 104 in the published report.

On the basis of these established common points we can check the spacing of these tombs on the plan in Exc.Cyp against our own verified measurements. From the eastern end of tomb 17 (B.M.,T.53) to the western side of tomb 26 (B.M.,T.50) is 38 meters. On the British plan the distance is 0.05m; the scale is thus 1:760. From the