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 12 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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Wednesday 29 September11

End of the Gatier square. - end of clearing of pillar 728 - continuation of clearing of the wall (or pillar?) 724, in line with the closing wall to the west - see JF / Gatier.

Work of the bulldozer.

7h-9h - Opening of a second geological sounding, at 5 further south. Orientation south-north - Presence of large blocks, ± dressed, but not built - rolled blocks (sandstone) shells attest that these blocks stayed in the sea. But the silting and marl levels of yesterday's sounding are not found again .....

Major problems with the pump !

Ramp 490 square -

Cleaning in depth to the west and to the East x one comes upon a wall, under the water, which is in the line of pillar 708 - To the West (after cleaning: a large block in place + a large collapsed block in front) Note: it would seem - but this requires checking, that this could be what was interpreted in 1990 as " the rock in place" and the "drain" - In fact, it is a well-placed pillar, between ramps 490 and 491 x to the East, one comes upon a wall, under the water, in the line of pillar 707.

UF 51continuation: longitudinal section of ramp 490 -
Ramp state I presents the same system
as ramp 491 - state I.
end of the plaster construction at = 10.70 mof the head
end of the lateral runners at = 8.20of →
ramp.

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

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