Notebook·KEF_CF_132557_06·1989

Excavation notebook 6

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

Scan 10 of notebook KEF_CF_132557_06 (Excavation notebook 6), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_132557_06, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

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Cleaning of wall 4606

east face : there is one course below the course recorded in 1985 (alt. 2.07) - well-bonded block at south end fill of rubble and plaster on east face = + foundation trench in the green konos of the section West/East. => there is a foundation course at wall 460, set directly on the bedrock at a time when this whole area was out of water - cf. the plaster at a time when the konos layer already existed, since the foundation trench is cut into the konos -

The wall comes to a stop at the edge of the bedrock, to the N -

Sounding Hellenistic house - | UF 90/1 squares K7/2 - LK8/3 - room 465 aim: check the N foundations of wall 485 which, in trench 456, shows a "head" of robbing of 3 courses, so founded (?) or reusing (?) Classical - question raised during excavation 89 : could one imagine Classical remains under the Hellenistic house ?

LOB 1 - = loom weight in stone and in unfired clay -

Chance find : Mon 1

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

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