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 38 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 38 of 61

Tuesday 24 September 1996

continuation of the excavation of UF 105 in I 11 / 3 and 4 -

Under UF 105 , a lens of sand black which could be a beach top ( = UF 106 ) ( no material ) . From a point of stratigraphic view it is placed between the reuse of the ramps ( state 3 ) and state 2 of the ramps.

Wednesday 25 September 1996

[illegible] continuation of the excavation of UF 105 in I 11 / 3 and - in the eastern part of the excavation, appearance of the lateral low wall of the ramp of state 2 ( = Locus 789 )

Under 105 and 106 , appearance of a level of brown earth which could correspond to the floor of the last use of state 2 of the ramps - = UF 107

The mechanical digger places a new low point in the centre of the ramp … continues

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

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