Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 7·April–June 1938

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VI April–June 1938John Franklin Daniel

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

Scan 11 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 7 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VI April–June 1938), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 7, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

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] 29.4.^.38 | 2E2 West & 2E1 West | (from p. 21) changes below this level. It is cut in 2E1 by the archaic (?) wall. This level contains considerable sandstone. It is fairly consistent throughout the region from N. to S., but is cut in 2E1 by the archaic (?) wall, and stops in 2E2 east of the little wall, where grey sandy earth is found at

2.5.38 Dig below 10.25 = 10.40 finding a firm greyish-brown level with numerous pebbles. This level too is cut east of the small wall in 2E2 and by the archaic wall in 2E1. In the N. end of 2E2 the earth changes below this level. This is at 11.36(2E1) = 10.45 (2E2)

3-5-38 Dig east of this section in 2E2 finding the same sandy greybrown earth among stones going to and cutting the L.C. III earth to the west. Removing some stones find a change to sandier earth and a solid pack of stones at 11.96 . This looks like the same thing as the lowest archaic period in 2: E1

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

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