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

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula V May 1937–Mar. 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 6 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula V May 1937–Mar. 1938), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

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

Page 44Scan 19 of 90

18-5-37 TRENCH 28, UNIT 25 B 10.67 = 10.90 Floor FINDS

P 7711. Pithos frags. p. 20, # 8 (plan, #1)
P 18412. Handmade jug p. 20, #9 (plan, #2)
Sh 719 [inserted above, pointing up: ↑]3. vat Pithos frags. plan, #3
P 7864. Lamp (?), plan #4
P 8135. Jug plan, #5 Amph., vert. handles
on belly. h. 0.392. Sherds in pit 3St 83
6. Pestle, plan, #6 [bracket enclosing next two lines: } 10.35 / 10.77] and 9.98?
in 10.66
St 647. Corn-rubber

P 8098. Pithos, h. as pres. 1.10; diam. 0.85. Broken in pit #1. 8. Krater-amphora. Squat. diam. 0.471. Scattered on floor, not on plan.

see p. 58 for plan sketch of pits : :

5 vat fragments, found (red clay) in a sack with frags of handmade pithos with rope design, less gritty & coarser than most of this type. Flat base. samples saved Also frags of 2 handmade jugs.

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24.5.37TRENCH 2 from p. 43

No / see p. 66Unit 21, N.E ext. The 11.14 level is the same as the 11.09 = 11.15 in unit 26. In the west it is of red-brown earth with white grits. In the east it is yellowish with a great deal of decomposed sandstone, and some pebbles. We must be dealing with two different areas.

Photo Bam 128 of unit 20 at 10.52 = 10.72 Photo Bam 127 of unit 26 at 11.09 = 11.15

Unit 20 : Dig out pit #2 (see p. 34) It is below the 10.52 = 10.72 floor, the top filled with stones. It goes under the S. wall. It is filled with light grey-brown earth with coarse sand. The N. & E. walls go to 10.52 = 10.72; the W. wall rests on a thin layer of earth over bed-rock.

Unit 26 . Isolate a patch of very soft, slightly greyish-brown earth in the E. floor. This has the same line as a vague change we noticed above, but omitted to isolate, regarding it as fortuitous. We dig this

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

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