Photographs·PU-Mu 1050, Box 34, folder 4·Undated

Bamboula Excavations

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

Scan 4 of photographs PU-Mu 1050, Box 34, folder 4 (Bamboula Excavations), handwritten in English. The transcription follows.

Scan: Penn Museum Archives, Philadelphia, PU-Mu 1050, Box 34, folder 4, Courtesy of the Penn Museum.

Unnumbered pageScan 4 of 30

(from V.G. personal Roll 51, \print sent to F.D.) Jan 29 Bamboula cistern. later covered wall of S. end of T. [illegible] lat. 33°, 4' E., [illegible] sounding at lat. 35°, 4' Bamboula Trench 2, room 2, abve base in which mark of wooden post: 33, N from W. of Trench 2 - r.b. [illegible] from W. : 32-24, E. of Savoy's house, house a street, grout with 3 strata under "Mycenean" period underlies. Stratis i 38, Bamboula. sounding island is quality. cement wall socket (?) just W. of wall with pot bottom [illegible] N., 1/2 × 2/3 y); wall socket. Put /from NW: 25, cistern - later cement wall, /: rock outcropping: [illegible] b-N. E 24-21 /_ cistern wall with lime plaster, / bottom. wall and sounding, E. end of [illegible] later wall E. E. y. [illegible] from W (soil and cropping cover rest) _ junction (21 short [illegible]) 20. [illegible] - cat. - cistern - _ "path" an [illegible] arch. wall, socket, bench - pot bottom 19, feb. 25, apperent 5 b into plaster. cistern top gold : 18 - March 15 - Feb. 2 18 from E. 17, W. end depth 5' E., 16, Feb. 16, hole - cistern man N.; 15, s.w. corner, 1 from W.

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