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 78 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 78 of 93

526 503 23

Encircled: 160

15:3 ^E.\end of N wall410433
N W (center)422446
E (center)438461
15:2 pit439457
center388**4.11**
E368**3.91**

Written diagonally: VI-5 Tr. 15 8-6-38

Right page

6.6.38 TR. 15: 3 (from p. 49) [encircled: 161]

stones. The earth is reddish brown. In 15:3 this strosis ends with a consistent layer with many white particles, sloping much as the 3.67-4.34 layer did, but less steeply. Some of the stones visible above in the N-W seem to belong to the strosis below the loose stony fill. The wall between 15:3 and 15:2 continues down.

7.6.38This strosis is at 4.33 (by E. end of N. wall of 15:3) = 4.46 (center of W. side) = 4.61 (center of E. side) N. east of the E. end of the N. wall the stony fill stops and its place is taken by gritty brown earth, which Dig through this and find decomposed chavara. The stony fill, however, continues past the line of the north wall and slightly into 15:2. Remove it.

8-6-38 Photos VI-5 of Trench 15 at 4.33 = 4.46 = 4.61 (3+5), 4.11 (2), 3.88 (4)

Photos Bam. V. G. 9, 14

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

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