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 27 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 27 of 63

Notes on UF 14 26 We continue to descend along the massif 491, eastern trench. Behind the staircase 491 / East (to the N), one can see, fleetingly, a piece of yellow floor at the level of the third step. + while cleaning the east section, one sees very clearly a floor sloping towards the north -

=> behind the stairs, there was a floor of beaten earth descending along the ramp !

One tries to descend as far as the base of the massif 491, to see whether foundation - find diagnostic sherds.

the 30. 29.09, this UF becomes 17

UF 11 - Continuation, still slow, of the western part of the massif 491. = K88/109 to 119 : Alignment of the square to the N- homogeneous Classical Opening onto the trench JLG -

K88/95 to 103 UF 14 should have been homogeneous, but 1 Hellenistic tile + 1 very late skyphos. Mixture of crates ? cf. UF 17, also mixed -

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

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