Notebook·PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 10·1948

J. F. Daniel, Bamboula IX 1948John Franklin Daniel

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Handwritten in English. Every line is transcribed, and the text sits beside the scan.

Scan 22 of notebook PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 10 (J. F. Daniel, Bamboula IX 1948), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 6, folder 10, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Page 30Scan 22 of 83

Drawing: section diagram

section through wall between 21:1 + 21:12 in area S of semicircle of 21:1 Photo Bam 48 C 5 before removing two stones of wall (not removed) See p. 33 \therefore\ = chavara ash { 7.17 7.25 clay 7.30 7.42 7.46 LCIII wall 21:12 rock cutting on diagonal 1.0 21:1 rubble floor]

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30-10-4821:1 + 21:11, Pit

part of 21:1. This is shown by the fact that one small section of the sherd floor rests on fill where the bed-rock is gone. There is a marked difference in the floor of 21:1. In the north + west it is excellently built of large flat pebbles set in firm clay + chavara mortar. In the S+E, however, the floor is much poorer + built of sherds + some pebbles. It rather looks as if the sherd floor were a later renovation, necessitated by the collapse + filling of the cave. Many frags. of gypsum plaster were found in the pit. Kept.

Photos Bam. '48 C 8-9 of Pit Photo Bam. '48 C 10 of 21:11

3-11-48Dig out the rest of the cutting. It steps up to the S and ends at a heavy wall of boulders. The whole cutting (+ cave) seems, on the basis of the sherds found, to be of Archaic date.

Photo Bam '48 D 2 cleared

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

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