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 4 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).

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UF1 and UF 3 are of the same nature. (= UF 201 in 1998, see notebook S. Fourrier) --> On the ramp 494 - excavation of the upper fill to reach the ramp of state 2 = UF2

Friday 17 September 1999

--> ramp 731 - The mud-brick structure Loc 821 - 823 has taken on relief. Its conservation is decided => change of strategy. a balk of floor 478 is left to the east and in contact with the structure in mud brick. At the back [illegible] and between the ramp and pillar 480 -> discovery of a building-site floor corresponding to the construction of the mud-brick structure. In fact, fill UF3 was laid in 2 phases: 1 -> setting up of a flat terrace. 2 -> construct- ion of the brick structure. 3 -> the whole ensemble

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

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