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 28 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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Tuesday 5 October27

Cleaning of bulldozer work (under water). x Impossible to find a pillar between 753 and 754 : it may have existed, it may be in place lower down, under water, but it cannot be identified by touch (note: it was not possible to empty the sounding of its water).

x Cleaning of pillar 754, well preserved in its south part (1.50m high) broken in its north part. one searches, with a pick, its extension north towards the tennis wall. without UF without keeping the sherds.

x Search (under water) for the continuation of the low wall 490 - E2 / East difficult to follow = broken in places it sinks under the water - one loses it (but not necessarily stop) at 20 21, 10 m from the head of the ramp. - 21 m physically recognised for the ramps

UF 57 Continues UF 56 of the day before.

The absence of floor seems to mark the location of a pillar between 751 and 708 (which could correspond to 728, to the West. Fruitless search for this pillar: a sounding in depth yields nothing. material in principle good.

UF 58 Levelling of state I (or II ?) between ramp 490 and ramp 488, to the North of pillar 707.

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

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