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Notebook·KEF_CF_132560_13·1999

Excavation notebook 13Jean-Christophe Sourisseau

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 11 of notebook KEF_CF_132560_13 (Excavation notebook 13), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_132560_13, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

Unnumbered pageScan 11 of 70

1010
Wednesday 22 September 1999

Resumption of the excavation in the upper part of the ramp 494. Floor 824 removed => excavation of l'UF 5 . UF 5 = layer of usual green fill.

-> Ramp 731 excavation under floor 825 = layer of fill = UF 6 - Many rubble in the layer - It is probably about the destruction and abandonment of the upper part of the ramp of state 2. => floor 825 is pa surely a working floor (the + old) of the reconstruction in state 3 -

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

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