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 27 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 146Scan 27 of 40

TRENCH 2

7.78

Drawing: plan of excavation units; labels: surface, Unit 6, Unit 7, Unit 5, Unit 2, pithos, Unit 1, Unit 4, Unit 3, Unit 9, Unit 8, 1, surface

2^nd strosis

3Unit 20.98.694Unit 2, rock1.048.82
4" 50.98.73Unit 5, lower1.269.04
2" 60.858.68
5Unit 1, white floor1.569.34
pithos on floor, south1.509.28
11.729.50
surface lower1.369.14
" upper0.408.18

Right page

TRENCH 4

15.3.37contd_ (UNITS) from p. 145

The north wall of the unit has been displaced by surface intrusions, which also damaged the south wall. At the east no wall appears at this level. Perhaps it was open and the unit was used at this latest period for cooking, etc., the ruined walls of an earlier period covered with a lean-to roof. A group of stones in the center may be a base for a post.

16-3-37Continue Finish clearing the rock floor in Unit 4. At the south a flat round grind-stone and frags. of a pot are found on the floor, but the surface intrusions have so disturbed the area that it is not certain that this belongs to unit 4. Clear intrusion #2 in unit 3. It is a shaft going to ⊕, ca. 1.20 x 1.50, cut into the bed-rock. The inside is shaped with stones + clay. A pithos must have stood in the center, probably #5 of (to p. 149)

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

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