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 6 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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Monday 21 September 19875

- Opening of square H8/1, UF 201

the excavation is extended to the west of the trench of the wall 453 + small wall 454 = 1/2 square East (orientation North / South) without baulk between H8/1 and H8/2 -

- Opening of square H8/2 - UF 202

Tuesday 22 September 1987

- Continuation UF 201

- Continuation UF 202.

- In square H9/3, nothing spectacular: no trace of the continuation of wall 453 towards to be cleaned | the North, even if one sees de be loose stones which could belong to the packing adjoining to the North the pillar 453

+ along the west face, one identifies the remains of a rough small wall, built of blocks not dressed and roughly bonded, comparable to the to be cleaned | small wall 454 of square H8/2. awaiting

+ towards the end of the day, one deepens the North half of the square, leaving the South half awaiting. → change recent dog carcass .... | of UF = UF 203 (dated 23.09)

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

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