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 15 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).

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at the foot of the buttress, at the limit between the | 14 basin and the floor, one finds the trace of a railing vertical - cf. excavation 1987 - trace in the buttress trace on the floor - In the West face (= UF 8), one sees an enormous packing of stone and plaster at the head of wall 708 - But cf wall 450. this packing was thrown into a pit and does not bond at all wall 708 to wall 432

We finish UF 10 by clearing the space between the wall 708 and the massif 490 -> clearing of the stairs 490/West- 3 steps, in marmaro. RAS - One sees = - the remains of plaster which edged the lining/west of massif 490 (no doubt torn out during excavation = the lining covered part of the steps - - remains of plaster on steps 1 and 2 - remains of plaster in the corner, on floor 477. - in front of the stairs, the whole of floor 477 is covered with plaster, locally no doubt a plaster work area. - in the North section, one sees very well the lining of the massif 490 : shapeless heap of stones, with a simple plastered face towards the west between wall 708 and this lining : slab of marmaro associated with wall 708 + fill of earth it there is not any wall of brick.

[(drawing)]

| K88/70-76 | Rather Archaic = the fill of the period 2 is made with earth coming from of a fill Archaic - [Note] absence of tiles. See also UF 15 + previous years: fill yellow

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

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