Bamboula, Tombs (extracted from McFadden's notebooks)

NB VII, pp 65 ff

31 March 1939Find Tomb 17 at the edge of the upper terrace, about 15 m. southeast of Tomb 13. It is full of red earth with bones and pottery, mainly L.C. III, and appears to be completely plundered.

1 AprilFind the floor of the tomb, plundered. I propose abandoning it, but Christo insists on cleaning the floor. A few minutes later Nikolas, workman, finds two pairs of gold earrings, in the shape of calf's heads.

3 AprilContinue clearing the tomb, apparently thoroughly plundered.

4 AprilFind numerous fragments of the famous window krater, British Museum C 391, proving that this is the British Museum Tomb 53.

Clear to the southeast, another chamber opening into the same dromos. A large stone which we bought last year from Yorkos Loizou, was found by Sokrates, closing the stomion of the tomb.

19 AprilWhat appeared to be two chambers in Tomb 17 is in reality only one, of peculiarly angular shape, divided by a large buttress almost opposite the door. It seems to have borne a vault.

The dromos is to the west of Tomb 17. It is oblong in shape with a flat floor. On the west another tomb opens from the same dromos. This is Tomb 17A, doubtless the Tomb 102 of the British Museum.

Photos Bam. '39, 252-258.

17 AprilStart clearing Tomb 17A. It has the same queer shape as Tomb 17, and is doubtless to be regarded as belonging to the same complex, and probably family.