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 30 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 30 of 56

(continued UF 212)28
- locus 491 drops steeply towards
the North, on a steep slope

- locus 491 is wider than the excavation at surface suggested would have led one to expect.

cf. UF 213 descent into the SW corner of the square, to try to reach the marmaro slabs - - massif 491 sinks has one more course to the west, covered with brick earth (probably has one more course to the east, to be seen next season) - the fill of UF 213 consists of yellowish crushed sandstone identical fill, everywhere from West to East, the length of the "corridor" bordering 432 = in I8/2, I8/1 + J8/2 + 1985 excavation } same yellowish fill, very different from the fills of brick and stone to the North of the squares

end of day, cleaning up the square, going down, in section face, the East wall between J8/2 and I8/1.

in I8/2, UF 210: only a plaster bed remains of 488 c partly torn out which sinks under the section I8/2 - H8/1. -> the massif measured more than a 2 m wide cf. 459.

we take down the part between the massif 488 and the baulk I8/2 - I8/1. -> floor 477 continues towards the North. -> we find, laid on the floor, a marmaro slab which could correspond to a "staircase" id. 459

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

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