Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 9·May–June 1939

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VIII May–June 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 9 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula VIII May–June 1939), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 9, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 11 of 63

16-5-3921:27 7.05 21:14a 8.19 " b 8.11 20:12(a) 9.18 (b) 9.28

Margin left: 28

898 324 --- 574

Drawing: trenches/walls with labels "f", "b", "e", "d", "a", "20:12", "20:11", "20:9"

Right page

Margin left: 29

12.5.3921:27

Isolate unit 27 in the new south extension of trench 21. It lies to the south\east of and adjacent to tomb 19. Reddish earth is found at 6.80 .

15.5.39 Dig below 6.80, removing several tumbled stones, and find a sandy greyish level at 6.98(SE). In the west this is cut by sandy red-brown earth, by and in the line of, the wall. Photo Bam. 39. 184 at 6.98

16.5.39 Dig below 6.98, finding a sandy brown-grey level at 7.05. There was red \brown earth over this level in the S.E.

17.5.39 Dig below 7.05, and find an even firm sandy-grey level with brown particles at 7.08. In the S.E the earth is brown. In the E by Tomb 19 there is chavara fill, and in the N-E an intrusion. In the S-E the earth at 7.08 is brown. Dig below this and find at 7.19 the grey level we had elsewhere at 7.25 . Dig below 7.19 and find grey-brown earth at 7.25

18-5-39

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

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