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 7 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 7 of 61

Wednesday 27 September 1995

Levelling after removal of UF 6. on the surface UF: 9 (layer of weak cohesion, light brown.)

topo Ref point = 3.84 (on top of the pillar 728, to the N)

[(drawing)]

layer UF 9 has been only partly removed. It is of heterogeneous composition ; clayey light brown earth with pebbles with sharp angles of very varied sizes (cf. never above ∅ 10 cm. = probably fill - redeposited - sherds fairly numerous, but many of amphora bodies … continues

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

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