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 19 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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We stop UF - 9, and resume a level in . below, to follow the slope of massif 491 towards N - = UF. 14 + Deep cleaning of the square at 15 h 30, to remove all the packing

UF 10 being finished, we open towards the North, between the massif 490 and wall 708 trench parallel to UF 12, respecting the doubling / West of 490 = UF 13 (see p. 14) many Classical tiles.

Nota on UF 12. Many fine Classical tiles.

We clear the pavement of marmaro 707 / West - RAS -

We respect the doubling recorded by Callot in 1987 (cf. trace on floor 477 / East - idem notes p. 13-14 here. this doubling is very very very coarse but presents a plastered face to the East-

This doubling slopes towards the North !!

Between the doubling and the pavement of marmaro, we find a very fine yellowish floor, similar to 477, at the height of the steps = floor of the steps. Now, doubling = phase 2 staircase = phase 1 floor = phase 1 + 2 = floor = 709

Finds .

in UF 12, a small nail in Bz, LoB 3 = KEF + some fragments of Bz, small

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

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