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

TRENCH 2 UNIT 1 — correlation of

levels marked in text (middle of

room) with those on cross section (N.)

Photograph; labels: 2:4; 2:9; 2:8; 2:9

2:1, pithos from N.W., ready for removal. Earth cut away to "rock to 10.09". Photo shows that pithos goes with 2^nd period of wall to 2:8 (left). Nos 2.4 indicate thresholds of these periods to 2:9

Photo Bam. 81 22.4.37. To p. 99 [IMAGE NO. 451716- BOTH PAGES]

Right page

21? 4. 37 [inserted above the line: .] from p. 95

floor. The jug was clearly covered by the 10.64 = 10.71 floor, the pit of the jug was filled with pulverized sandstone, the other with the red earth of the 10.64 = 10.71 floor.

In the N-W corner isolate a circular cutting filled with red earth, cut into a larger cutting.

Photos Bam 77, 78 of plain-mouthed jug in situ.

Unit 1: Dig out the banquab of the wall to units 5 + 9. In the west part it goes to bedrock, but in the east, following the line of the general N-S cutting of the rock, it goes to a pack of gravel. This banquah is cut through the 9.71 = 9.93 floor, and was covered by the lime floor at 9.77 = 9.80.

Margin left: i.e., from 9.71 = 9.93

* Before clearing the various wall + pithos cuttings we dug from the below the base of the 9.77 = 9.80 floor, through red packed earth with a great deal of crushed but not pulverized limestone, to a slightly less vivid red level, more sandy and without limestone, at 9.76 = 9.98. This sandy floor is actually only in the east; the rest is rock