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 14 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).

Unnumbered pageScan 14 of 35

Friday 28 September_ 8

Continued clearing of ramp 491, UF 20/3

- The ramp stops about 2 m from the W/E section: it is not clear whether the ramp is broken - (the end is partly torn away...) = destruction deliberate, of the ramp (1) at the time of the construction of the ramp (2) or whether it really stopped there => sounding to be made in depth to determine the thickness of the substructure

- The lateral rails are broken.

- To the N, a floor begins to be distinguished in green + red konnos that "slopes" towards the N. But problem: the supposed presence of this floor (to be cleared more precisely) in the W-E section is 30 cm above the bedrock in place

=> is it really a shoreline? the deposit of ± 0,30 m of konnos is it really a floor or the decomposition of the rock in place? in that case, the ramp would end in earth (pblme of tide? of construction ± in the water - But wall 460....), at a suitable height; yet, we saw yesterday that wall 460 seemed to have been dug into the konnos (= trench of foundation) - To see with Paul Sanlaville -

Very few sherds = two black Attic, early _IV_e and four atypical = fill of the 2nd state -

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

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