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 2 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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Kition. Bamboula

Season 1987.

J. F. Salles.

Arrived on 14 September 1987. From Tuesday 15 September to Friday 18, cleaning only: the excavation cannot begin until after the arrival of Marguerite Yon.

Saturday 19 Septemberwork with mechanical digger on the extension of the Myrès trench towards the west, at the top of the Bamboula

Monday 21 Septemberactual start 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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