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 20 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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on one line 2.50 m in line 8/ 1-2. 19 (= 2.50 m new squares + ± 1.50 m of the old excavation limit, without baulk).

North-south baulks are left between the squares, at the level of the offsets of wall 432.

In the clearing of the squares by bulldozer, several walls appear.

continuation of the cleaning en I 8/2 = UF 210 I 8/1 = UF 211 J 8/2 = UF 212

210 - in I 8/2, one sees appearing, in the centre (in the middle between the two offset walls), bonded and interlocking blocks. Massif ? comparable to 459 ? or wall, which would be between the two offsets marked by buttresses the south face of this new massif is exactly in the E/W alignment of the south face of massif 459/ staircase. in the N.W corner of the square, appearance of a slab of marmara, which could be les a "paving" associated with the offset wall (situated in the baulk I 8/2 - I 8/1. the central massif is better preserved than massif 459: it continues north beyond the limit of the 1/2 square. in the S.E corner of the square, a large stone about 1 m high, uncut, could not be in place. A more precise clearing is awaited to identify and number all these elements

211 , in I 8/1, nothing to report, cleaning and pa resumption of the very slow descent.

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

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