Notebook·KEF_CF_132551_01·1987

Excavation notebook 1Jean-François Salles

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 12 of notebook KEF_CF_132551_01 (Excavation notebook 1), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_132551_01, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

Unnumbered pageScan 12 of 56

Friday 25 September11

in H8/1, continuation of UF 204 in H8/2, continuation of UF 205 in H9/3 cleaning of the trench Nothing to report.

Monday 28 Septemberin H8/1 continuation of UF 204, which becomes UF 206 in H8/2, descent to the east of wall 453, under UF 207 in H8/1, we find the end of massif 459, but no trace of a partition wall parallel to 453 probably robbed out.

descent into earth very compacted by the bulldozer + Classical debris, numerous plaster fragments.

in H8/2, descent into Geometric layers in place, with an amphora 2 WP crushed (to be reassembled).

the foundation trench of 453 appears very narrow, could 453 have been abutted towards the east?

small cleanings in H9/3.

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

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