Bamboula, Tombs (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)

NB VII, pp. 57 ff.

30 March 1939Discover two tombs (13 and 14) adjoining (cut by early plunderers or by accident in antiquity), at the west end of the easternmost rock ledge of the lower level in Lot 236.

These two tombs appear to be Nos. 53 and 102 of the British Museum Expedition. They are clearly plundered, and great masses of pottery thrown in heaps at the edges of the tomb. It certainly looks as if all native (and some imported) pottery were left in the tomb.

The plunderers did not clear all of the tomb(s), but left several pillars of earth standing to hold up the roof.

(Marginal note added later) These are not the British Museum tombs, and were apparently not dug then. See Tomb 17-17A.

31 MarchPhoto Bam '39, 32 of Tomb 13, with pillar of earth showing. Start to dig down from above.

1 AprilPhoto Bam '39, 38 of Tomb 13 partly cut down, showing parts not dug by British Museum. (But see marginal note above)

Photo Bam. '39, 50 of Tomb cleared.

3 AprilContents

1. Gold ear-ring with cluster of grapes. West, at edge of shallow Base Ring bowl. 24 k., 11 gr. L. 0.0262. X Mi 181

4 April2. Small circular gold bead. Th. 0.0021; diam. 0.0032. Mi 183

5 April3. Bronze saw. X M 213 4. Glass bead, fragmentary, oval. L. 0.020; diam. 0.0092. X Mi 182