Notebook·KEF_CF_132553_10·1995–1996

Excavation notebook 10Jean-Christophe Sourisseau

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 15 of notebook KEF_CF_132553_10 (Excavation notebook 10), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_132553_10, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

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Wednesday 4 October 1995

The excavation finally reaches the base of UF 9.

A very clear floor but of heterogeneous appearance appears. It slopes down towards the N.

In the E part, our excavation limit being set along the median axis of the ramp excavated to the S, the floor is made of a sort of white mortar and of some stones. The whole is fairly solid. In the rest of the sounding, the floor is made of e an agglomerate of quite numerous pebbles and held in a matrix of very compacted clay. This layer seems at first sight to cover the mortar floor present to the E. The late pottery is very abundant down to the contact with the floor. On it, it would seem even that there are broken pieces in place. Moreover, this floor covers and this in such a way … continues

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

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