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 20 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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Tuesday 2 October_ 10

End of the cleaning of the ramp and of its side rails side rails to check whether it is indeed the end of the ramp, or a break, a sounding is made at the base of the ramp, N-S, west half = UF 90/4

=> the ramp is preserved only over a thickness of two or three centimetres. there is a clean edge on the eastern rail => it is indeed the end of the constructed ramp total length - 10, 10 m.

Under the floor that follows the ramp, A ± 1.80
there is a succession of recharges (no true
floor) = construction of a thick fill,
± 0,40 cm,K90-35 at
Mycenaean sherds in quantity.K90-93

=> there is deliberate filling above the bedrock (alt , ± 1.05 / 1.10) and not natural: the konos deposit is anthropogenic.

Work with bulldozer One digs as far as possible into what appears to be a hole facing the ramp. descent into soft (?) material + stop on a layer harder (?) to the east, a worked and recut bedrock is uncovered along a S / N line. - amopetra / yellow sandstone, fairly straight - partly eaten away by the bulldozer on the top, but the cut line appears old - under the amopetra (alt. top cons: 0.77), one finds again a layer of green konos.

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

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