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 46 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 (79)Scan 46 of 83

Right page

[page number: (79)]16.11.48Circuit Wall South (from p. 73) [page number: 79]

found before. This runs down on to the stones of the wall proper, with a line of three stones facing it in the angle, and sweeps steeply up to just below the surface of the outcropping to the S. It consists of stones & sherds set in mud, with occasional patches of gravel.

Photo Bam. '48 G2-3 at sloping stone paving

18-11-48 Clear below the sloping paving to a consistent level of fallen brick. Digging through this find many building stones. Photo Bam '48 G 6-7 at fallen stones.

In the west the tumble is predominantly of stone, whereas it is largely brick in the east. Remove the tumble, which contains many pieces of a pithos. Many frags: were found scattered over an uneven gravelly level at which the tumble stops Photo Bam '48 G 8-9 (To p. 81)

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

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