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 18 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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x in the east face of the sounding, we scrape back 17 the bricks of state II the slope of the floor state II, which dives towards the North the slope of the floor state III , preserved in the angle North of the section - section to photograph. OK

Note : (after his return), O. Callot notes that the robbing of wall 724 is not "normal" -

- To the West, the pocket of pebbles ( = drainage ) is on a steep slope towards the North -

- To the N, pillar 749 is isolated => a soutènement East / West is needed perpendicular to 724 towards the West to stop the slope - To be excavated in 1994 -

UF 51 , continued

x Cleaning of pillar 752 , in the north face of the excavation.

[(drawing)]

Very well built and preserved.

3 well-preserved blocks - - 1 block of sandstone towards the top + robbing of another - 1 levelling course of marmaro - 1 block below, cleared - 1 other block below, which dives into the water

x Work on pillar 751 the preserved surface of the pillar, partly [illegible] under the water, appears very horizontal and plastered.

There is a block fallen forward . It appears clear that the pseudo-drain of 1990 is the small gap which separates pillar 751 from the fallen block to the North -

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

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