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 52 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 52 of 75

BAMBOULA, TOMB 28

NB VII, p. 111

21 April 1939Tomb 28 is in the main rock ledge of Lot 236, north of Trench 21, Unit 9. It is roughly rectangular, ... x ... x ... high, and has a rectangular dromos, ... x ... . The tomb floor is ... below the dromos. The tomb was plundered, but a Base Ring bull and some pottery were found in it.

Contents

✓ F 621.Base Ring bull. Incised eyes and folds on neck. L. as pres. ...on display in Cyprus exhib.

2 June

✓ Mi 1662.Leech-shaped gold earring. In earth thrown out of tomb. W. 0.0178.
✓ P 12093.L.H. III (or imitation) bowl. Bands; solid center with narrow outline. H. 0.063; diam. 0.189.
✓ P 12104.Ditto. Closed spiral at center. Incomplete. H. 0.062; diam. est. 0.22.
G675.graffito

+ 2 sherds like Sh 706-7

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

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