Field notes·PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 20·1934–1954

Bamboula, Tombs (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)

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

Scan 12 of field notes PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 20 (Bamboula, Tombs (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)), typed and handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 4, folder 20, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 12 of 75

BAMBOULA, TOMB 5 (cont.)

29 March(cont.)

Photo '39, 31 of Tomb 5 at ... level.

✓ P2635✓ P2636✓ P2637✓ P2638?Contents 1. L.C. III bowl, with curved sides and plain base; center knocked out. Diam. 0.19; h. 0.075. With skeleton I, at 30 cm. level. 2. White Slip II bowl with three feet. With skeleton III, ... level. 3. White Slip II Bowl. H. 0.102 4. Base Ring II bowl. H. 0.094. 5. Ostrich egg. 6. Ivory disc, plain. 7. Ivory button.

15 May 1939(NB VIII, p. 27)

Clear the dromos of Tomb 5. It is rectangular, 1.30 x 1.35, 0.45 deep. A niche on the west contains bones. Two others, one 0.80 x 0.70, 0.60 deep, the other 0.30 x 0.17, 0.20 deep, on the east, are empty. Two small pits on the north may also have been niches.

Photos Bam. '39, 180-182.

Key to levels on plan: 1 - red loose earth 2 - grey gritty " 3 - red clayey " 4 - red or grey, gritty 5 - clayey

✓ P2779✓ P2780✓ P2781✓ P2782✓ P2783✓ P2784✓ P2785✓ P2786✓ P2787Added from sherds (Phila. 1954) 1a Plain pot base 2a " " " 3a WS bowl 4a fr. large WS bowl 5a " " " " 6a WS bowl 7a BR bowl fr. 8a WS bowl rim section 9a WS wide-neck frag.

✓ P2788✓ P278910a 1-h bowl 11a BR bowl frag.

sherds (bags got mixed greatly reducing their value for stratification) contained at least 1 Myc III A/B f-n jar handle. (samples saved).

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

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