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 27 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.

Unnumbered pageScan 27 of 93

12-5-38SMALL FINDS(62)
C 10321. Bronze Coin. Tr. 12 north, on
fallen brick.

12-5-38 S 81 | 2. Cylinder seal of grey steatite. I. 0.023. Tr. 12, W. Ext., about 8 M. from S. end, on 6.88 level S 87 | 2a Small loom-weight. Tr. 12, S., intrusions M 209 | 3. Long bent bronze rod with swollen ends. Tr. 12, on 6.98 = 7.05 level, at point indicated on plan, p. 70

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F 584. Frag. of female fig. Tr. 12 north,
6.89 to 7.05 + on breast

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S 825. Steatite Cylinder seal. 2:E 4
west, on 11.56 floor
St 716. Frag. of neck of Alabaster vase.
Tr. 12, 2nd W. ext., 6.95 to 7.05
Sh 5847. Sherds of Pseudo-Myc. bowl. 2 E 3, in
further clearing on 11.62 floor. (to 11.68)

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S 838. Double-conical steatite spindle-whorl.
Tr. 12, Pit, in bare stoney fill
M 2379. Bronze object, square in section.
2 E 4 west, on 11.69 = 11.79 floor

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F 6110. LH III fig. frag. Horse (?) Tr. 12,
Pit, south, to 7.42 (to p. 108)

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12-5-382:E 3-4 west63

For some days past we have been cutting down in this section, through various layers of post-L. C. III earth, as indicated on the drawn cross-section. The archaic stone fill lies in the east, cutting on the 11/16 = 11.32 level, there cut to the 1937 limits. It is of relatively clean red earth with a fair amount of sand. Dig below 11.16 = 11.32 and find at level of sandy red-brown earth with frags. of green and white rock at 11.16/11.40 in 2 E 3. The S-W corner is more gravelly than the rest below 11.40, so there may be a difference in earth below. In 2 E 4 the red earth stops, also at 11.30, at a red earth with some grey sandy level. The change to the earth of 2 E 3 takes place at the north side of the section left undug (to p. 69)

12-5-38 Dig below 11.30 in 2 E 4 west, through sandy brown earth with some gravel and find a change, though with rather similar earth, at but with a whitish sheen and less pebbles, at 11.48. In the east a large semicircular line of white earth is visible. Behind this the (to p. 77 69)

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

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