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 49 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 49 of 75

BAMBOULA, TOMB 25

NB VII, p. 85

11 April 1939Tomb 25 lies between tombs 16 and 24. Though completely disturbed by a large voupha in the east, enough remains to make its excavation worth while.

not responsible for uncircled objects - prob. discarded.

Contents

not cat1.Fragments of bronze bowl. Diam. est. 0.16. Kept for analysis.

Not cat | 2. | Lump of iron (later found to be stone)

✓ M 2123.Iron chisel (?). L. 0.08
not cat4.Fragment of Roman glass. Discarded.from voupha?
✓ F 715.Miniature terracotta shield; diam. 0.049; thickness 0.018.
✓ P 9976.Hand-made hemispherical bowl. "Apliki ware" (?). H. 0.052; diam. 0.125.
not cat7.Small hemispherical bowl. Exterior burnished.
✓ P 9988.Deep bowl with inset base. All covered with dark paint save for a reserved band inside and out, and circle at center. H. 0.055; diam. 0.125.
✓ P 9999.L.C. III carinated bowl. H. 0.046; diam. 0.154.
not cat10.Ditto. H. 0.06
✓ P 120111.L.C. III bowl of Base Ring type. Plain. H. 0.076; diam. 0.165.
✓ Sh 57012.L.H. III sherds. (three)
✓ Sh 571
✓ Sh 572

Added from sherds (Phila. 1954)

P 279113.Bowl frag.

Margin left: identical?

Margin right: Sherds

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

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