Notebook·KEF_CF_132563_05·1989

Excavation notebook 5Pierre-Louis Gatier and Jean-François Salles

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

Scan 10 of notebook KEF_CF_132563_05 (Excavation notebook 5), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_132563_05, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

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Wednesday 27 September.5

Resumed the descent across the whole of the square, under new UF 102 (but stratigraphically not different from 100) -

UF 101 K89-3047 to 3057 = mixed 3047, Hellenistic cover-joint 3048, sample of content / oyster, f . pottery, Ech. 2. thrown, an shapeless piece of lead sheet. a fragment of bronze nail, square section, ship's nail ? a flat nail head 3049 (= L09 9) = object in limestone, of shape undetermined.

Thursday 28 September.

- Continuing UF 102, we begin to find the floor 710 across the whole square, sloping steeply towards the N, as expected.

- Opening of the 1/2 baulk East, = alignment on the N-S line of the square, to try to find (at the NE limit of the square) the "pillar" in the alignment of = UF 103

UF 102 K89.3058 to 3080 mixed 3058, horseman's head, Classical 3059, horse's head, Classical 3060, bronze nail 3061, frag. of cover-joint, Classical

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

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