Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 4b·March 1937–1938

J. F. Daniel, Bambouli/Erimi tomb IIIb Mar. 1937–1938John Franklin Daniel

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 13 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 4b (J. F. Daniel, Bambouli/Erimi tomb IIIb Mar. 1937–1938), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 4b, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 118Scan 13 of 40

TRENCH Nº 4

Drawing: plan of trench No 4 with grid, stones, pits, and elevation measurements; labels: 0, 1M, 2M, A, 8.44, 8.34, Pitho, 8.80, floor 8.95, Stone 8.63, 8.55, B, unit 8, 9.01, 9.08, Γ, Pit, 9.19, clay 9.19, Pitho 1, 9.29, floor 9.35, 9.39, 9.28, 8.49, Δ, 9.08, 9.09, Unit 11, 9.55, E, 9.08, 9.09, Z, H

TRENCH Nº 4 and NORTH EXTENSIONS at 8.95-9.35 floor

Roughly measured plan — not strictly accurate

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3-3-37TRENCH 4

Start trench no. 4, north of and parallel to trench no. 3. It is 1.50 wide, and starts at 6 meters long, to be extended as occasion arises, later extend the trench to 10 meters

4-3-37Extend the trench to 14 meters, and widen section B another 1.50 to the north. Stratification:

1. Plowed soil 0 - 0.20 2. 0.20-0.50 Brown soil, consistent. 3. 0.50- a strosis of building debris: fallen bri clay, red & white, and some pebbles - firm. The tops of walls?)/ appear through the top of this strosis.

5-3-37 Continue to dig in all parts of the trench, and open up to the north in sections A-Δ. Extend the trench 8 meters up the hill, leaving the lower 2 meters undug.

In the upper (west) extention find a floor at . This leads up, in the lower square to an undefined square mass of white matter, with clay up against it. firm surface. To the (to p. 123 below)

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

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