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 4 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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Thursday 22 September 19883

19 workmen, fine weather! But the mechanical digger is not on the site at 7h!.

UF 88 - 1 - Lowering of the baulk H8/1 - I8/2

UF 88 - 2 - Lowering of the baulk I8/2 - I8/1

UF 88 - 3 - Lowering of the baulk I8/1 - J8/2 (removing the brick wall visible in the southern part of the baulk) - End UF 88 - 3 . = K8811 to 33 . homogeneous/ Classical Ve - IVe -

UF 88 - 4. Opening of a trench South - North, in J8/2 - between massif 491 to the East squares: and walls 450/452 to the West J8/2 - J8/1 (before opening of J8/2 North crates = 1 - 2 with bulldozer - ) = search for the west staircase of the massif 491

UF 88 - 5 = Opening of a trench East - West, between massif 490 squares = and massif 491 - southern limit = alignment of massifs 490 and 491 I8/1 - J8/2 - objectives: clear staircase 490/West crates = 1 - 2 intermediate wall parallel to 452 and if time clear staircase 491/East . - at working face from da the East - K88 - 1 K88 - 4 = mixed/ End UF 88 - 1 Classical and Hellenistic .

UF. 88 - 6 Lowering of the sounding -> floor 477 begun in 1987, to widen floor 477 (material ?) square = widen the basin of marmaro along the J8/1 - J8/2 wall 432 . crate 1 ->

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

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