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 37 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 37 of 75

BAMBOULA, TOMB 17-17A (cont.)

x P 97316.Body of wheel-made jug. Lustrous chocolate paint. H.as
pres. 0.085; d.0.092.
x P 97417.L.C.III bowl, carinated rim. Trees and dotted stacked arcs
on interior. H. 0.061; diam.0.159.
x P 97518.Wheel-made bowl of Base-Ring ware type. Red to dark grey
wash. Handle missing. H. 0.085; diam.0.17.
x P 97619.Bowl with base-ring, curved sides and flattened rim. Closed
spiral in center. H. 0.067; diam.0.172.
x P 97720.Ditto. H.0.062; diam.0.18.
x P 97821.L.C.III carinated bowl. Closed spiral in center. H.0.067;
diam.0.15.
x P 97922.L.C.III carinated bowl. Unusually high. Closed spiral (?)
in center. H.0.071; diam.0.158.
x P 98023.Carinated bowl. L.C.III. Like 21. Incomplete. H. 0.066;
diam. 0.17.
x P 98124.Carinated bowl. Bowl Ware. Fine clay, lustrous paint.
H. 0.062; diam.0.16.
x St 52025.Mortar of fine-grained grey stone. Raised base, curved sides,
slightly indented interior.
see text x Sh 63726.35 sherds of L.H.III krater, British Museum C 391.
a-y

On hand in Nicosia Museum the following objects marked T 17A but without notebook reference:

St 519St 521Mi 553Mortar of coarse-grained blue-grey stone with raised base, convex-curved sides, slightly hollowed interior. Pestle, tapering, flat at top, slightly rounded at bottom, of hard smooth-grained blue-black stone. Iron nail, badly diseased shaft, lacking head.

Cf. also Gl 181

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

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