Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 8·March–May 1939

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VII Mar.–May 1939John 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 8 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VII Mar.–May 1939), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 8, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page (24)Scan 11 of 94

Photos 16:5+14 at 9.95+10.29 B8-9

TR.16 - Level below stones 263

16:10 a2279.79
16:11 b2419.93
16:13 d24810.00
16:12 c2469.98
[blank] g2399.91
16:5 e25110.03
16:14 f28910.41
16:15 g26310.15

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Tomb #5

20-3-39Start clearing a tomb on the north-west slope of the Bamboula, at the edge of the rock ledge, close to the old Paphos road. This tomb was plundered in 1935 by villagers, and the sherds brought to me. The tomb has been open ever since. The plunderers (and we) entered by the dromos. The chamber is intact.

24-3-39 We have dug through earth thoroughly ransacked by at least two plunderers, who investigated 2/3 of the tomb.

The southern third, however, is intact. 30 cm. over the rock floor we found the remains of at least two burials, in situ. The bones are beautifully preserved.

Skeleton I was buried in a crouching position, the right shoulder up, the face down, and the knees legs apparently brought up towards the chest, the legs stretching E.

Skeleton II, apparently laid out flat at the E. of the tomb, (To p. 29)

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

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