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 56 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 56 of 75

BAMBOULA, TOMB 32

NB VII, p. 173

8 May 1939Tomb 32 lies 5M. south of Tomb 33. It has a square dromos with three deep niches. The chamber is roughly rectangular, with an oblong depression in the center and a niche to the right of the door. The tomb was plundered and full of gritty brown earth and large stones. Parts of three skulls, and the objects listed below were found.

Photos Bam. '39, 242-245.

The pottery is L.C. III.

Small bone frags. and some sherds were found in all niches.

Contents

1.Bucchero jug.

2.Semi-carinated bowl.

3.Bowl of Base Ring type, plain.

4.Carinated bowl.

5.Trefoil jug.

6.Plain jug, T on shoulder.

7.Carinated bowl.

8.Ivory disc.

frag. of iron knife catalogued in Phila. 1954 with comment: "min 8")

Handwritten: P2688 / P2689 / P2690 / P2691 / P2692 / P2693 / P2694 / Mi 260 / M 1050

Info from original sketch

E. annulus; down 0.50 m S. " " 0.30 W " " 0.45

unit (line running as N "stratum" of N dromos 1.00 m above floor

floor of chamber 1.10 m below roof pit (Columbium) .15 m below floor

Added from sherds (Phila. 1954)

[handwritten: P2932 (9). Bowl frag. P2933 (10). Bowl frag. P2934 (11). Bowl. P2935 (12). Bucchero frag. P2936 (13). plain frag.]

+ sherds

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

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