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 14 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 120Scan 14 of 40

Magnetic north 50° 30' left of line B3-Ba3

Drawing: plan of trench and survey points; labels: center, A3, B3, Ba3, a, b, c, d, e, f, g, h, j, k, l, m, n, o, p, q, r, s, t

tocenter18.35
f —toBa38.10cfromcenter 8.50Ba3 18.65
B3A3 7.10B3 18.50
A312.90d” fromcenter 12.25Ba3 16.85
a —Ba3A3 4.75B3 20.00
B39.95eBa3 13.0B3 18.35
A314.85center 15.30
bBa318.15gBa3 14.35
B315.85A3 10.50
A310.10 (10.15)hBa3 13.0
center7.70A3 11.45
kcenter9.35jB3 18.40
A38.60A3 6.55
Ba3 15.00
center 13.00

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4-3-37TRENCH 5

Start trench #5 at the S-E corner of lot #270. It runs in a N-E. direction and is 10 meters long and 1.50 wide. This trench is started by men from the Sanctuary of Apollo, who can't work there because of G. H. McF.'s illness. Work stops at 2:00 P.M. because of heavy rains.

5-3-37 Continue, reaching a change to red-brown earth in the lower part of the trench at . Find a very large, apparently worked, stone at a depth of . in section . The earth from this stone on up the hill continues dark.

6-3-37 Find bed-rock at a depth of in the upper trench. A squared block rests on it. In the lower trench find a workman cutting through a gravelly fill, and stop him. Extend the trench 2 meters N-E.

8-3-37Extend the trench up the hill, in the hope of finding what happens when we meet the bed rock cropping out above

9-3-37Continue, finding some very large fallen blocks and a great (cont'd. p. 131)

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

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