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 28 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 42Scan 28 of 83

Right page

3.11.4821:51

red earth containing many fragments of brick. Some, of peculiar shape, are kept.

Photo Bam '48 D1 of @.

4.11.48 In 51b south, disturbed earth goes down ca. 1.20, containing some large wall stones of LCII-III type toward the bottom. The lowest stones lie flat on a very consistent gritty red level. The cutting is now quite regular, & is beginning to look like a well. Two steps cut in opposite sides are just covered by the red earth.

5.11.48 At 2.30 the red earth gives way to dark greenish earth consisting largely of big pieces of brick, and at 2.50 to softer greenish-black earth. Many sherds (one whole pot) and large numbers of animal bones are found toward the bottom of the green level. This is clearly a bothros. The green level is probably brick which

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

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