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 19 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 130Scan 19 of 40

Measurements

CenterA 3B 3B a 3
a15.569.7516.4111.50
b12.9212.0012.8012.90

SURVEY POSTS

B3a (new)from B38.43
B3b" "17.95

Drawing: wall outline with three points; labels: a, b, c

B 3B a 3
a787788
b .672556
c879506

Right page

9.3.37cont'd._ TRENCH 5 from p. 121

mass of smaller stones, resting on a clearer level at . Clean these carefully, and on ascertaining that they do not form part of a wall but merely tumble, dig through them.

10.3.37An uneven row of big stones is only tumble, but a little on above we at last find the wall we are looking for. It is very solid, built of rubble of uncut stones of fair size. Only the lower outer face of the wall is regular, the back, obviously not intended to be seen, is filled with bright redbrown fill, doubtless ancient. Continue up the hill to find if this joins the bed rock or if there is another face to the wall.

12.3.37The red fill goes to the bed rock, which runs in an E-W direction here. We clear to the south, and soon find where the wall stops before the rock. Clear in front.

(To p. 143)

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

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