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BAMBOULA, TO MB 1
NB VI, p. 15
23 April 1938Clear an Early Cypriote tomb discovered outside the circuit wall at closing time yesterday. It is sunk only slightly into the bed-rock, which must have been much higher in Early Cypriote times.
Bones and fragments of pottery are found ca. 10 cm. above bed-rock, covered by a very hard layer of earth with much white rock. It seems that the tomb collapsed soon after building. This probably accounts for its partial preservation. It goes partly under the circuit wall.
[Another pit was found yesterday just south of Trench 2, Extension 1, also going under the wall. Judging from its shape it too may have been a tomb. It contained a hard stoney red fill, and many Late Cypriote II sherds.]
Numerous bones and sherds were found in Tomb 1, but in a disturbed conditio n. Nothing could be determined concerning their original position or the confines of the tomb, save perhaps on the south.
Photos Bam. 228-231 of objects in situ. No plans drawn.
The bed-rock must have been about a meter above its present level when the burial was made.
Contents
| S 49 | 1. | Terracotta spindle whorl, globular with |
| incised zones. Dark grey terracotta, | ||
| burnished. Max. diam. 0.027. | ||
| P 932 | 2. | Amphoriskos, R.P. I? Flat base; wide |
| flaring neck; vertical lug handle at top | ||
| of shoulder. Soft gritty brown clay, | ||
| warm brown surfaces. Deep pink burnished | ||
| slip in places. H. 0.085 Diam. 0.073. | ||
| P 933 | 3. | Amphora, R.P. I?. Wide pot with flat base, |
| short vertical neck, and trace of vertical | ||
| handle. Clay dark grey, shading to red, | ||
| gritty, with chaff temper. Interior and | ||
| exterior slipped, red to dark grey-brown; | ||
| exterior imperfectly burnished. H. 0.150 | ||
| Diam. 0.154. | ||
| P 2841 | 4. | Base of R.P. jug (from sherds) |
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain