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 12 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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Thursday 27 September.| 7 Work with the mechanical digger. - removal of the ramp 710, entirely, to search for ramp 491 - we remove everything down to ± 10 cm from the top of ramp 491.

some architectural fragments and sherds recovered
on the heap of earth, under noUF
90/2-

- cleaning of squares J10/3 - J10/4 = trimming of the baulks, removal of the earth, re-digging in depth

to the E, it turns out that the bedrock continues towards the N = hollowed out only at the location of the ramp? -

- filling of trench J10/1 - excavation 1985 - the trench is backfilled -

Clearing of ramp 491 - =UF 90/3

(Note: we stop the excavation in the house Hellenistic.

objects 90/2- CER 1 = sherd with red-figure K90/26 tiles fragment of plaster

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

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