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 34 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 55Scan 34 of 83

(54)

Drawing: architectural plan showing walls, towers, and masonry; labels: W. TOWER, ← Wall B, ← Wall A, E. TOWER, ↑

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8-11-485 8-11-48 Circuit Wall

Start clearing the southern area of the two towers of the late wall, in the hope of finding an earlier complex beneath. Remove top-soil & earth that had washed in and come on the well-known fill of loose stone. A wall appears in the top level in a line with the LCIII wall to the south.

6-11-48 Photos Bam. '48 D 9-12

Start removing the top layer of stones.

10-11-48In the section between the two walls (A + B of pp. 54+56) we find the stratification shown on p. 56. The East Tower is now more or less clear. It is a large rectangle with broad foundations around the four sides and with earth with only a few stones in the center. What we have preserved is only a rough foundation. In the east the (to p. 63)

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

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