Notebook·KEF_CF_124031_03·1988

Excavation notebook 3Olivier Callot and Jean-François Salles

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

Scan 11 of notebook KEF_CF_124031_03 (Excavation notebook 3), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_124031_03, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

Unnumbered pageScan 11 of 63

- as a result of the agitation that followed the work with the bulldozer | 10

- as a result of an unfortunate oversight by the archaeologist - in charge (= me)

→ there was some confusion in the boxes, and the UF were not respected!

This is not of great importance, except for UF 8 = dismantling of the fill = in the Monday, the material must be differentiated by origin: from the upper fill = crushed bricks + clay + rubble = UF - 8, box 1 → x from the lower fill, = crushed sandstone + stones .... = UF 88.10

Finds RoB 1 = KEF - large iron nail (more likely bronze), 20 cm long, bent but complete = ship's nail ? [illegible] = found in UF 5, square J8/2 RoB 2 = KEF - ship's anchor, found in the fill above massif 491.

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

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