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 34 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 34 of 63

30.5.39T.36 (from p. 72)[circled: 74]
M893c31. As #29-30
P132532. LHIII false-necked jar [circled sketch: small spiral]
H. 0.127 ; Diam. 0.118
P132733. LHIII 3-handled pyxis H. 0.07
Diam 0.094
P132934. Imit. of 33, lug-handles H. 0.056
Diam. 0.069
P133335. B. R. bowl H. 0.071 D. 0.177
P133236. do. curved conical. Lifted handle.
H. 0.099 D. 0.18
P133437. do. H. 0.072 Diam. 0.162
P132238. Trefoil jug H. 0.199 ; D. 0.153
P133539. B. R. bowl. H. 0.071 D. 0.163
P133040. B. R. jug. White paint. H. 0.155
Diam. 0.11
P132441. LHIII plate H. 0.054 ; D. 0.19
P133142. small B. R. jug H. 0.073 ; D. 0.061
P132343. Plain jug, trefoil H. 0.213 D. 0.148
P133644. B.R. bowl H. 0.063 ; D. 0.158
P133745. do. do. H. 0.07 Diam. 0.154
(to p. 76)

Right page

20.5.3921:29[circled: 75]

Remove the remaining top-soil and find a level of loose brown earth with great numbers of fragments of red brick at 6.54. This is exactly the same as 6.55 in 21:17, and was continuous with it.

31.5.39 Dig below 6.54, finding light greybrown earth at 6.62. There are numerous sherds lying on this level, which is thus probably a floor.

1.6.39 Photo Bam. '39. 237 at 6.62, before removing sherds in situ. The stones of a wall are found in the east. North of these stones in the line of the wall loose red earth is found at this level. It stops with grey-brown earth at 6.65. Photo Bam. '39. 238 at 6.65 Dig below 6.62 and find a sandy, grey-brown floor at 6.65. A row of stones at the S. seems to lie on this floor. A big piece of flint is sunk into it. Below 6.65 the room is divided in the line of a rock cutting. In the south grey-brown earth goes to bed rock; in the north clayey (to p. 79)

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

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