Notebook·KEF_CF_132570_08·1993

Excavation notebook 8Jean-François Salles

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

Scan 10 of notebook KEF_CF_132570_08 (Excavation notebook 8), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_132570_08, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

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date state II). 9 Very compact fill of pebbles, cobbles, rubble, etc... The floor, domed but torn up, is thick at ca 10 cm, very hard: small pebbles, crushed amopétra, etc. no sherds.

UF 52 We clear the whole floor of state I between the ramp 491 and the wall 708 = approximate levelling (excavation of the upper levels in 89). The material should normally date state II, except for notable intrusions.

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

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