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 24 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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Monday 4 October.23

UF 54 continuation of the clearing of the floor État I between ramp 491 and the alignment of pillars 452/460. the material is not necessarily good, because the excavation has been open for several years: collapse of west baulks (+ work by Costas, who has a knack for mixing up the sherds). Note: this UF will be finished on 6.10 by Savri, UF 60-

UF 55 = continuation of UF 53: end of the clearing of the pillar 749 + clearing of the plastered face of wall 724, down to the vertical of the section État II . mixed material. A slab of État II appears in the section -

UF 56 Clearing of the État I floor to the west of ramp 490, in the alignment of pillars 708 - 751.

Work on pillars 751 and 752 Surface cleaning Search for the base of the pillars => It turns out that the base of the pillars is the rock in place As in 90, the rock in place is found again - The rock has been recut (not for a basin dug by the bulldozer), but: to cut pillar bases, on which the plastered pillars stand perhaps to lay out the ramps?) It could be that to the North, the ramps are no longer built but cut into the rock (if the rock bank is horizontal - At the vertical of 752, in any case, small section between the pillar and the ramp État II = there is a fill of 20 cm above the rock, + État I floor + État II floor

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

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