Notebook·KEF_CF_132569_04·1989

Excavation notebook 4Yves Calvet

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

Scan 5 of notebook KEF_CF_132569_04 (Excavation notebook 4), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_132569_04, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

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Wednesday 20 September 1989

I6/4 , continued - UF 2 (continued) - earth accumulated since 1977, risk of mixing on the surface [illegible] Numerous small pebbles , mixed with the earth . = floor - locus 588 - Δ 210 end of excavation at Δ 191 beneath this floor in a small sounding *

I6/4 - cleaning of the top of walls 247 and 248 -

I6/1 (and 4) widening of the sounding of walls 247 and 248 | northwards as far as wall 254 | — the east — limit of east baulk of I6/1 and 4 | — the south — the line of wall 250 | — the west — prolongation of the east face of wall 256 southwards . Material in place earlier than building 254 . - UF 3

Remark on the sector I6/4 south of wall 250

- Geometric phase, the + earlier floor of pebbles (open space) locus 588 , Δ 210

- Geometric phase, the + later floor of pebbles (open space) locus 589 Δ 24 241

- wall 250 (3 of the Swedes) rests on 2 courses of mudbrick and on a construction of dressed stone (south face very well laid out)

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

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