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 6 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 6 of 63

At the end of UF 1, the floor 477 is being cleared between the massifs 5 459 and 489 the E/W floor-stop line (against the staircase, totally torn up) is clearly visible torn up) is clearly visible the stop line against massif 489, east face, is harder to make out to be checked again tomorrow under the stairs (north part of the square) (missing?), there is only a shapeless packing -

At the end of UF 2, the whole staircase between massif 489 and massif 490 is cleared -> continuous steps, in marmaro - which surround a "pillar" of refent, no. 707 well preserved - End UF 2: Sherds K88 - 5 to 10 - classical, IVe - Description and sketch to be made.

The bench E / W to the south of square J8 / 1, left in 1987, is excavated under UF 7.

(Note). Remarkable day's work, the teams taking down a considerable piece of work. - - The mechanical digger / bulldozer must come without fail tomorrow morning -

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

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