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 25 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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TRENCH N^o 11

αλώνι9-5-38 Start trench 11, 22.50 long by 1.50 wide, running N.+ S., in the relatively level stretch at the top of the Bamboula, just west of Georko's αξόνι, in lot no. 236. The surface of the trench is at 2.15 N., 1.65 S. (below the central stone of the αξόνι: the same base used in lot 270) At about 25 cm. down in all save the north end, the plowed earth stops at a uniform layer, in parts bed-rock, in others hard red earth with much bed-rock and stone (central part) Cut through a section in the north central part, finding the red earth layer stopping about 50 cm. down (0.80 total) at a loose fill with many stones.

10-5-38 The stoney fill stops 1.00 (1.80) down at a thick layer of fallen rock, of a clayey dark red type. It contains L.C. I or MC III sherds. Bed-rock is reached at

11-5-38 open up more of this pit, to see what it really is. Plowed earth stops at redbrown earth, which in turn (to p. 67) … continues

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

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