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 8 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 28 September.7

End of Galier's work: - in K8 / 4. Rhododactyla finishes clearing the Classical floor - see UF / Galier

- in K9 / 2-3. Ginghos continues clearing the pillar 728 -

Work with bulldozer 7 h - 8 h 30 -

Opening of a geological sounding, far to the North, in the immediate vicinity of the tennis court / orient. E/W to be located on the plan. sounding ± 4 m (starting altitude = ca 2.10 m -> descent to 2 m below level 0). fills very quickly with water But the digger brings up cardium, shells linked to the silting of the harbour. shells of calm waters, of "sedimentation" in the harbour silts "base" of the harbour in place.

But: the pumps are not pumping! the south face collapses.

Continuation of the widening of the trench 490 - North. It would seem that ramp 490 crosses the whole trench and continues to the North, under the face. => length of ramp State II = 19 m at least. A lot of water!

Clearing after bulldozer .....

UF 51 = Section South - North in the interior of the ramp 490 - State II to follow State I and clear the low wall State II / East. the material (if there is any) should

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

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