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 20 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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Thursday 5 October10 - Continuation UF 109. Clearing of the yellow floor of the 2nd state.

- In L 13/M13: opening of the trench with the mechanical digger Monday so Wednesday evening - → to the west, the rock is present, UF 110 plunging abruptly towards the east end of the square M13. cf. excavation L-M 13. → at the foot of the rock, presence of a coarse wall (large rubble stones, little or no plaster visible - but cleaning difficult owing to the water) Wall S-N parallel to the rock. → between the rock and the wall, fill not clear + MONNAIE - → east of the wall, fill / debris. Cleaning and end of excavation in the trench - The team is sent back to the N.W. area (S.L.G.) UF 110 = 1 coin, KEF 986 (K89-3130) K89-3129 to 3138 = 1 Archaic, + Classical + Hellenistic - Friday 6 October -

No team works in J/10 - J/9: descent and general cleaning in the N.W. area. (S.L.G.).

As a precaution, a slightly deeper sounding is carried out at the east corner of J/10 - 3 and J9/ 2 = search for a for the wall corresponding to pillar 460 in the extension of wall 708 - No result down to about 2 m alt. = level of wall 460. = completely robbed out -

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

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