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 13 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 13 of 63

Monday 26 September.12

UF - 9 , continued ( North trench in J8/2 ) crate . 1 UF - 8 , continued = attention, differentiate UF 8 upper level crate 1 K88/63 - 69 Mixed ! UF 10 , lower level (crate = 1)

UF - 11 . descent from J8/2 - J8/1, along the wall crate . 1 452, parallel to UF 9, to clear the face west of massif 491.

Northern limit of excavation for UF 9 and 11 : 1/2 square J9 = 2,50 m.

UF 12 . descent in J8/1, between massif 490 and wall 707 , towards the North - Crates 1 - 2 ( need for work = forming 1 team Crates tiles - 3 . 4 additional -> we open a new trench towards the North).

at mid - day -

UF - 8 is not finished . we have finished the upper pass, but we descend on on the whole surface until the limit between the two layers : upper layer : clay + plaster debris + bricks + stones, relatively hard and compact. ≠ lower layer : yellowish sediment ( crushed sandstone ), mixed with stones - limit between the two layers = approximately, the 2nd step of the staircase - But there is no floor separating the two fill layers -

End UF 10 - We clear all the floor 477 ) -> until the all the basin 447 buttress 493, opposite wall 708 - - At the foot of the buttress, floor 477 is pierced (below) by a deep pit - (animal hole ; we fill it in) - Basin 447 is well preserved = marmara slabs in place, well bonded to to wall 432

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

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