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 21 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 21 of 63

Tuesday 27 September20

Cleaning of J8/2 - J9/3, after bulldozer work.

- continuation UF 12, down to the E/W line of 2.50 m in I9/4

- continuation c.5 UF 13 -

- continuation UF 8 - we reach the b yellow fill = UF 15 c 1.

Notes on UF 13: - the doubling is torn out very quickly towards the North - - huge recent pit = corrugated sheet, espadrilles, etc...

Notes on UF 12 - floor 709, yellow (sandstone) passes over the doubling of 490/East => this doubling is a reconstruction of the system, abandoned a at a moment x, the nature of the building changes, whereas it was under restoration: massifs 489 } and 459 } already repaired in fine blocks massif 490 under repair, in fill. b at a moment x + 1, all the repair is abandoned -> we fill with yellow sediment all the southern part + work in progress. + period during which this first fill is exposed -> ± floor, but ≠ occupation floor. c at a moment x + 2, new infilling, with brick walls and packing, to build a other building above (there were bricks above the yellow floor which covered the doubling 490/East -

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Attention! Today, the bulldozer "ramassage" box = UF 14. the box without label = UF 11-

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

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