Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 5·March 1937–May 1938

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula IV Mar. 1937–May 1938John Franklin Daniel

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

Scan 23 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 5 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula IV Mar. 1937–May 1938), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 5, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 44Scan 23 of 87

[margin left: 1.4.37 from p. 20

2.4.37 3-4-37 2.4 S22 S7 St 47 M14a St 38

6-4-37 M32 M15a St 45 St 46 P743] SMALL FINDS 1. Stone pithos cover - rough hewn. Tr. 4, Unit 9, on 10.00-10.02 floor

2. do. do. do. do. with pithos 2a Trunc. pyr. loom weight. Tr. 2. Unit 7,

3. Steatite bead, irregular shape. Tr. 4, Unit 7, on 9.49-9.62 floor.

4. Small conical pestle of rather soft black stone. Tr. 2, Unit 1, on floor

5. Bronze tack. Tr. 2, N-E - top-soil

6. Circular corn-rubber. Tr. 2, Unit 1, on 9.62=9.75 floor (found 1.4.37)

7. Small lump of iron. Tr. 2, Unit 5, on 9.35=9.47 floor.

8. Frag. of iron knife. Tr. 2, Unit 5, on 9.35=9.47 floor, in door to unit 1.

9. Pestle of fine-grained blue-grey river stone. Tr. 2, Unit 4, on 9.44=9.71 floor (found 1-4-37)

10. Circular stone with two indented sides. Found with # 10

11. Deep bowl, Pseudo-Mycenaean. Tr. 4, Unit 1, (9.53)-(9.43) 9.69-9.76. Found 5-4-37

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TRENCH 4 [margin left: 1.4.37 from p. 33

2.4.37 3-4-37] Remove the pottery from units 9 and also 12, and the to tub (p. 14, #2). from unit 7.

Extend the trench to the east by another section 4 meters wide, going to approximately the line of the wall between units 5+9. Find the brown strosis comparable to the 9.82=10.14 and 10.14=10.22 found in the section dug yesterday, at 9.81=10.21

Digging below this find a strosis of brown earth at 10.08=10.51 south, and 10.25=10.31 east. This and 9.65=10.17 in unit 11 10.20-10.33 in unit 10,

Find 6 intrusions in the second intrusion extension

Unit 6 + 7a Dig below the 9.44=9.55 level, through the sandy reddish brown earth with decomposed vegetable matter. Find a red-brown sandy floor with particles of lime + green spáxos, at 9.49=9.62, in the S. part. A wall develops out of the stones found in the intrusion, so running parallel to unit 1, and joining the wall between units 6+7, which does not extend to the wall between unit 1 and units 6+7. The 9.49=9.62 floor

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