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 36 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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Friday 9 October.34

Last day of excavation.

in J8/2, |UF 210| confirmation of the staircase: three steps preserved. Very fine west staircase preserved = the flight east has been torn away in the destruction of 488c.

in I8/1, |UF 211| , to the east, a slab of marmaro in the N.E angle (id marmaro of J8/2, N.W angle), and appearance of the lower step of a staircase = east flight of massif 490.

in J8/2. |UF 213| in the south-west angle of the square, we find - the floor 477 - the slabs of marmaro at the foot of the wall 432. slabs well bonded to the wall with plaster no seepage through the buttress traces of a parapet low wall, bordering the slabs of marmaro to the south to protect the floor 477 = imprint of the joint of the slab / parapet on the south / east end of the buttress.

in G10/4, end of excavation without finding anything at • 1.70

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

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