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 8 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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Monday 25 September.4

- Continuation of UF 100. the upper layers, the hardest (area much gone over by the bulldozer in previous years) having finally gone, the work advances - a very little bit - faster! we begin to clear the yellow floor of the 2nd state towards the South.

- UF 101 clearing, at the working face, of the West face of the brick wall West (in the long trench). the uncovering, in section, of the brick wall should allow us to better pursue the search for the floor in slope towards the N-

Tuesday 26 September

- UF 100 continues weakly at the surface

- UF 101 continues on the West face

POB = clearing of the whole West face of the wall of brick. Sample 1 - cf. pottery. REL 2 - horse head - K 89-3036 REL 3 - horse leg - K 89-3037 SOB 6 - alabaster frag. . K 89-3039 SOB 7 - stone bowl frag. K 89-3040 Classical tile . K 89 3018 Cover-joint Hellenistic . K 89-3040

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

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