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 16 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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Thursday 30 September.15

UF 51. continued. On the earth floor in front of the ramp, superb red patch, paint, as on ramp 491 and elsewhere.

UF 52 continued and finished. RAS Clearing of a sloping floor (approximate) between wall 452 and wall 460. = UF 54

UF 53 Continuation of the clearing of the extension of the wall 724 in K9/1-4 (= opening of landing by bulldozer, excavated by Savvas and Giorghos etc). x A witness section of the exterior floor (West) was kept at ramp 731 / State II fine thick floor, sloping slightly towards the N, with traces of plaster on the surface. This floor abuts very regularly against ramp 731 to the East and against what remains of the wall to the West = there was a regular and well compacted floor along the ramp .... floor 750

x there is a break between wall 724 and what survives of the wall in this square = wall 724 does not continue towards the North, and what is visible is a pillar = pillar 749 the upper part of the pillar is torn away it measures: 2.50 x 0.80 m - the south and north faces are preserved with a surface regularly plastered; on the long east side, a plaster joint preserved after removal of a block secures the joint with the floor 750.

descent to the south and north of the pillar to bring out its surface: the material should be mixed (removal of the pillar), but essentially State I.

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

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