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 29 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 29 of 63

Thursday 29 September28

- Continuation UF 11 - Finished today?

- Continuation UF 12 - Finished today?

- Continuation UF 16

- Continuation UF 17

- Opening of a new trench, to the East (baulk
J8/1 - J8/2), to clear wall 707.
+ extension in J8/1-UF 18

End UF 11 = opening onto trench ELG. we clean the "pillar" in a block of sandstone leaning on the brick wall

correction of section

cleaning of ramp 491, and its two grooves.

End UF 17: we reach, to the South, a coarse bed of plaster, bonded to the foundation of massif 491 = work area, ba foundation base - work stopped, cleaning. | K88/104- 108 Geometric

General cleaning in J8/2 - J9 3

End UF 12 - Complete clearance of ramp 490, up to the N of the square + the doubling, sometimes better built with reused blocks_

Notes on UF 16 = wall 708 is torn out towards theK88/120-
North -135
continuation of descent banquette/baulk in the parthomogeneous,
North of the site -classical

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

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