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

Tomb 40 Finds

P2883 16. bowl, LCIII dec. with lug handles, intact. P2908 17. jug, reddish clay? neck & handle broken P2893 18. bowl, LC III dec. in three fragments. P2868 19. spout jug, rim chipped P2894 20. bowl, plain; rim chipped. P2875 21. spout jug, small; rim broken P2920 22. larger jug, 2 broken fragments P2898 23. plain deep bowl, no handle P2901 24. LCIII carinated bowl, intact

Nos. 13-24 may all have been swept back from an earlier burial or burials (skull II-IV); however it is possible that nos. 18-24 were placed at the foot of Skeleton I.

P2897 25. plain deep bowl, intact. P2891 26. carinated bowl, LCIII dec. P2923 27. plain jug with shape reminiscent of syrian types. P2890 28. carinated bowl, LCIII dec. P2900 29. smaller plain bowl in # 28, intact P2910 30. bucchero (?) jug; shattered P2867 31. spout jug; rim chipped P2918 32. plain trefoil jug, intact

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in the middle or under the stoma entrance. Most of the pots are intact or only slightly damaged. A few, however, along the S wall are broken and seemingly in chance positions as if they had been pushed back at the time of the north burial. Covering this burial level was a layer of fine rather sandy earth, greenish around the north burial, reddish brown elsewhere 40-50 cm. in depth. Clear pots completely, draw in situ, photograph and remove.

Photo BAM '54 # 27 T40 opened completely from top, view from NE BAM '54 # 28 as #26, from SW -1.26 level / -1.46 " # 29 N. burial from S. " # 30 W. side from E " # 31 S. side from stoma (i.e. N.) " # 32 SE side " " (i.e. NW)

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Remove Skeleton I and skulls II-IV. Go below these and immediately come upon a small heap of skulls with a mass of broken pottery, a few pieces intact, pushed back against the S. side of the Tomb. This pottery also appears to be LCIII. There is no change of earth but the pottery is associated with a fairly hard, firmly packed (to p 157)