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Mi 149Mi 150M1148M215G 59P 994P 995P 9961. Cylindrical faience bead 2. Ivory disc, broken 3. Silver ring, spiral, broken 4. Bronze ring, broken 5. Bronze chisel L. 0.0561 6. Pestle 7. Inscribed handle, L.C.II plain ware. (drawing) . In sherds over tomb (= p. 150: 23) 8. L.H.III krater, horiz. handles. Birds in panels, guilloche on one side. Incised on bottom (drawing) . h. 0.293 diam. 0.313 9. L.H.III shallow bowl. Bands inside + out. H. 0.053 Diam. 0.175 10. L.H.III shallow bowl. Bands inside + out. White zig-zag over one of int. bands. Ext. painted in Red Y 1. H. 0.073 Diam. 0.205 .
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25-3-39 Start a trench m. wide, reaching m. in length by 25-3-39. It is on the N. side of the Bamboula, running straight up the hill at a point just west of tomb # 3. It is sunk with the double purpose of discovering tombs and of seeing the relative position of cemetery and town. Numerous cuttings are found, several being of tombs. Several βούφες are discovered, mostly sunk into tombs. Plunderers shafts do not seem to have caused much damage. A circular pit is dug to a depth of . It continues on down, full of dark modern disturbed earth. The skeleton of a donkey and an iron donkey shoe were found about 1.50 down. They are essentially modern. A group of stones set in a cutting in the north of this shaft seems to lie the door of a tomb, through whose dromos this deep shaft was cut. The rock just up to the hill from this has collapsed. This seems to be the chamber of the tomb. Near the northern (lower) end of the trench we find the chamber (to p. 39)
65 figures hard to readstruck struck outadded written in above” jug ditto, and what it repeatsword reading not certain