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 4 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 4 of 93

(16) Tr. 6

Drawing: wall, pits, and trench sections; labels: wall, Pit 2, Pit 1, wall, N. sect., T.nb., Pit 3, geom. wall, Pit, S. sect.

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25-4-38 Tr. 6

Find another pit in the S. sect. sunk in bed-rock by the N-W end of the geometric wall. It is sealed with a layer ca. 10 cm. thick, of χαβάρα! This lies on a few centimeters of red earth. Below it is grey earth.

In the north section find another pit, N.W. of the first and running up against the north wall. It is filled with blackish earth and contains pottery.

[bracket enclosing next 3 lines: Photo showing walls & pits in N. sect., with pottery of pit #2 Photo 232]

Remove the pottery in pit #2.

Extend Tr. 6 East by a section 1.50 wide along its west side.

Start another trench, 1.50 wide and long up the hill to and west of the main sect. of Tr. 6

26-4-38 In the new S-W trench we find very sandy earth going down to bed-rock at . In the S. end a shallow exploratory pit stops in a rock-cutting.

In the north end we find

Written diagonally: [to p. 23

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

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