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 16 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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of bricks of state 2 could have two 8 meanings: a/ = the ramps widen considerably towards the downslope, to join one another - b/ = this floor 710 constitutes, at the downslope , a 3 state , much wider than state 2

(Note: state 3 is now well identified in other sectors of the excavation.

To the north , floor 710 is torn away / broken , one does not manage to determine the end of the ramp = everything is "melted" by the winter rise of the water table , which rises up to around 2.50 / 3.00 m according to the testimony of Andrias - in the long North trench -

=> it is impossible to determine with precision a end of the ramps towards the downslope.

in line with this cut (± real, no doubt having cut into a few dozen cm of floor towards the north) , we open an E/W trench to try (if the water table allows it) to clear state 1 beneath state 2 . = UF 106

Mixed ! We are in the collapse ("melting") of the ramp + pit (see Sinclair sketch, "returns") - Archaic sherds + Hellenistic sherds , + tiles. K 89 - 3113 - 3124 But = majority Archaic / beginning Classical = level 1 ?

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

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