Notebook·KEF_CF_132565_12·1998

Excavation notebook 12Jean-Christophe Sourisseau

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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_132565_12 (Excavation notebook 12), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_132565_12, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

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Tuesday 22 September 1998excavation of UF 101 and (Miracle), discovery of a levelled pillar under the fill. (7th row) - Pillar = Locus 818 very levelled, Two stones visible for the moment. The small layer of pebbles, observed in the pump hole in 1997 rests against the foundation of this pillar - (marine layer? upper beach?) In the east part of the sounding, this layer has disappeared, it was cleared at the same time as the pillar => there remains Roman infill in this sector -

Wednesday 23 September 1998slower excavation of the Roman fill in the east part of sounding 16 = UF 101 L> layer more compact, more silty with pebbles - substrate sloping steeply towards the E or rather towards the N - E -

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

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