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 4 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).

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Tuesday 14 September 1993

- Surface clearance over the whole excavation.

- Opening with a mechanical digger of a long north - south strip, along wall 724. It includes in K 9/1, K 9/4, K 8/1 and K 8/4, the north - south baulk which is cut away (to the west of these squares); and in L 9/2, L 9/3, L 8/2 and L 8/3 the half (about) eastern of these squares

Two different levels of excavation altitude are chosen, to the N of the preserved wall 724, towards the dividing line between L 9/3 and L 8/2, level ≃ 4,50; and to the south level ≃ 5,60.

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

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