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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 76 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 150Scan 76 of 87

4.5.37 TRENCH 2, UNIT 12

PIT NO. 4

Contents

S 161. Truncated pyramidal loom-weight
S 172. do. do.
P 7483. Frag. of White Slip ware hemispherical
bowl.
P 7494. do. do.
P 7505. Frag. of Base Ring ware bowl
with relief lines.
P 7516. Frag. of wheel-made Matt Slip
ware amphora.
P 7527. Frag. of neck & shoulder of plain
wheel-made krater-amphora
P 7538. Neck of large jug - handle to neck.
Plain, wheel-made.

Right page

TRENCH 2

5.5.37 from p. Unit 8: Photo Bam 107 of fireplace Remove the fireplace and stones and clear everywhere to the 10.30-10.40 floor. This was first measured at Unit 16: Finish clearing the pit, and remove the krater-amphora. Photo Bam 108 of pit before removing pot

6.5.37 Unit 26: Finish clearing the 10.86-10.94 floor. There is a sizeable patch of ash near unit 17, and there is a fair amount of pottery in situ on the floor. Photo Bam 112 of unit 26 at 10.86-10.94, with pottery in situ

Units 21+22: Photos Bam 109-111 of unit 21+22 at 11.10=11.19. showing post-holes. (see p. 152) Dig below the 11.10 = 11.19 floor, through red-brown earth, fairly soft, with limestone grits. The texture is not clayey. Clear to a firm level of quite warm red/brown earth with limestone grits and occasional pieces of green sandstone, at 10.26-10.31 in unit 21, 11.12-11.25 in unit 22 11.20-11.21 (to p. 153)

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

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