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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 32 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 32 of 63

29-5-39Tomb 36[circled: 70]
]1. Fragments of ivory rod. In[illegible
Mi 556A-K [/red ink]]earth about objects[red ink
]2. Top of fluted ivory rod. As #1[illegible
]3. medium glass bead. (grey) In earth[illegible
thrown out of tomb.

[red inkMi 169 [/red ink]] | 4. Gold plated steatite cylinder seal. S.W corner, on floor. l. 0.0175; diam. 0.0082; d. of gold end 0.0067

]5. yellow glass bead. As #3[illegible
]6. grey glass bead. As 3[illegible
Mi 170 [/red ink]]7. gold bead. S. burial (I) l. 0.0073[red ink
Mi 171 [/red ink]]8. do. E. burial l. 0.0079[red ink
Mi 172 [/red ink]]9. gold earring, E. burial d. c. 0.0194[red ink
]10 Ivory button30.5.39 | [illegible
Gl 188 [/red ink]]11. pear-shaped pendant of dark stone glass[red ink
]12. bronze ear-ring; spiral[illegible
Gl 190 [/red ink]]{ 13. glass bead, yellow[red ink
14. do., red

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26-5-39Tomb 36[circled: 71]

Discover tomb 36 in the eastern part of lot 271, north of the road.

The tomb had collapsed and was full of konnos rock and dark earth. The konnos goes right down onto pots and skeletal remains, the latter badly splintered. The tomb clearly collapsed before there was time for the accumulation of earth in the tomb. It is completely unplundered.

29-5-39| Clear the floor. Many beads are found on a thin layer of earth about a centimeter above the rock floor.

Photos Bam'39.228-234 of tomb cleared

There are two burials in situ. One, I, along the S. side, and II running N-S in the center, are the latest. There are a few traces of bones running E-W along the N. side, the legs apparently to the east. In the east there is a mass of bones from at least two skeletons. These seem to represent the earliest burial period, thrown aside for (to p. 77)

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

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