Notebook·KEF_CF_132564_07·1993

Excavation notebook 7Pierre-Louis Gatier

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

Scan 12 of notebook KEF_CF_132564_07 (Excavation notebook 7), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_132564_07, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

Unnumbered pageScan 12 of 57

Friday 17 September 199311

. Continuation of UF [illegible] - 2 in L 8/3

. Continuation of UF [illegible] - 3 in L 8/2 and K 8/1

. In L 8/2 and K 8/1 stop of UF [illegible] - 3 after exposure of wall 724 of which the upper foundation course has been torn out, except for the stretcher already known (alt 5.36). This tearing out partly destroyed the plaster 743, resting on earth (alt 5.35 [of the plaster]) and found attached to buttress 740. EAA 1 BOSOEC 1 . In L 8/3 (and K 8/4) stop of UF [illegible] - 2 at 4.80 m alt except in the SW corner where one keeps an unexcavated sector so as to preserve wall 745 (Roman ?) which appears in baulk and whose direction is ± E-W. Another plaster, at the edge of the corner buttress of wall 432, has appeared, plaster 744 (alt ≃ 5.35).

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

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