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 26 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 26 of 35

Thursday 4 October.| 13 Aquatic sounding . Various cleaning, levelling photos.

While cleaning, a drain (?) is uncovered in the angle south-east of the sounding. Poly mystico !

There is nevertheless one strange thing: if it is indeed a Hellenistic pit, it is nevertheless in the exact alignment of ramp 431 - ! -

14h 30: new scraping ..... It seems indeed, in fact, that the floor visible in east section is the floor of State II :

cf. "black floors" dipping in section to the N of the ramp built cf. floor of east section covering the drain, which seems associated with the cutting of the "basin"

cf , to the W, the fill of State II resting directly on the yellow rock in place.

So there would be a short State I, with basin a long State II, with fill of the basin and perhaps construction of wall 460 = wall 460 seems to be sunk into the sediments which mark State I. Could it be only State II ?

See sherds K90.94 to K90.97: mixed

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

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