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 18 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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Tuesday 3 October9

- Continuation of UF 106 = we reach the mud - Impossible to clear the slightest coherent structure: compacted fill, made of stones, of yellow sandstone .... but fill and late compaction = Hellenistic sherds. We reach water at

- resumption of work in the East trench = UF 107

- Nothing to report in L 12 / 13.

in UF 105, L0B 10, spindle whorl = KEF 1003 (= K89-3129)

UF 107 = Nothing kept!

Wednesday 4 October.

- Continuation of UF 107.

- Cleaning of the square = trimming of the baulks of J10/3 = UF 108 UF 108 = Nothing general cleaning of the squares J10/3 - J9 2 and 3 - kept Except - Opening of a quarter-square in I9 3, to bring the north limit of the level with the K89-3125 excavation in this sector, = KEF 994 and continue northwards the clearing of the = Coin massif 488 = UF 109 K89-3126 -> 3128 = RAS

Excavation stopped in J10/3 - J9/2 - J9/3 - stopped on the second state of the ramp (trimming of the east brick wall) the continuation of the excavation = search for state 1 under state 2, to the north, requires pumping and putting out of water. to be discussed with the municipality in 1990 -

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

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