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 34 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 34 of 56

the walls of partition / pillars, more deeply founded, 32 support | the walls in elevation | or columns the massifs / staircases, less deeply founded but wider at surface, support the ceiling of the under / floor = floor of the building in elevation.

Intermediate phase ? abandonment of the circulation underground ? cf. homogeneous yellow layer filling the basins and the corridor.

State II The undercroft is completely filled, after destruction (?) and becomes a solid massif

there is no longer any need then to respect the plan of the foundations cf. pillar dans site Pierre-Louis, founded in outside the system of State I.

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

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