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 18 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).

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Cleaning in H8/3, in the extension of the slabs of marmaro 447, to see whether there is a level of marmaro that was missed in 1985. (17) nothing visible.

Thursday 1 October.

Holiday (Independence Day) Sherds

Friday 2 October

H8/1 - continuation of UF 206 (= robber trench 476)

H9/3 - continuation of UF 208 + cleaning of the square.

- in H8/1, in robber trench 476, one sees the remains of the partition wall parallel to 453 = wall [476] Cleaning of the wall and end of excavation in this square

- in H9/3, final cleaning of the square, end of excavation.

Monday 5 October

- Opening of a trench in G10/4, east half. = 1/2 square, elongated North. South, 5 m x 2,5 m, in the east part of the square.

In this sounding, located 5 m east of H9/3 and of the partition wall 453, we hope to find a new partition wall further east (or a return wall ??).

= [UF 209]

- Bulldozer work: opening over 2,50 m towards the North of I8/2 - I8/1 - J8/2 = we set back the whole north limit of the excavation

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

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