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 23 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).

Unnumbered pageScan 23 of 61

Continued from scan 22

… no plant remains seem to be preserved, which could suggest that between the deposit (earlier than the setting up of the floor of the ramp) and a period x which perhaps corresponds to the period of use of the ramps, the sea level dropped. It would therefore be necessary to be able to date this infilling, which seems possible because it contains some pottery. Risk: that it may be the spreading of marine sediments dredged up, which may have served as a preparatory fill for the construction of the ramps.

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

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