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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 30 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 30 of 75

BAMBOULA, TOMB 14 NB VII, p. 59

30 March 1939Tomb 14 lies immediately northwest of Tomb 13, and seems to be cut by (or to cut) it. Digging to a depth of ... below the surface, a skeleton is found stretched out at full length, associated with L.C. III bowl ware.

1 April 1939Leaving the skeleton and digging below it, we find a layer of reddish earth with some pottery and the objects, nos. 1 and 2, but nothing in situ. The tomb was apparently ransacked and an earthen floor prepared for a later burial in L.C. III times.

Contents

✓ Mi 1521.Semicircular gold bead. Northwest,
15 cm. below L.C. III skeleton.
24 karats, weight 2 gr. L. 0.0119.
✓ Mi 2072.Ivory disc. With no. 1.

Added from etiquette (Phila. 1954)

✓ Gl 963.Frags. of faience [POSSIBLY JFD VI, 58, 2
IF THIS IS diff. from T 14, 2]

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

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