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 18 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 18 of 35

Monday 1 October.9 Official holiday.

But Sarri comes to start the pump in the morning to allow Paul Sanlaville to work in the north sounding -

- It seems certain that the line West-East of the rock has been cut by man no vermets (!) very detrital rock, with coral formations = amopetra (= yellow sandstone) + green konnos. But the cutting is not clean there are no marine shells on the face of the rock.

- to the east, one can make out, under the water, a line of rock apparently cut, oriented North/South.

=> could there be a basin dug in front of the ramp? -

Visit by Henryk Meyza, Archaeological Mission of Paphos, on problems of pottery Hellenistic -

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

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