Notebook·KEF_CF_132582_09·1995

Excavation notebook 9C. Castel

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 15 of notebook KEF_CF_132582_09 (Excavation notebook 9), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_132582_09, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

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Tuesday 26 September

- L9/3: altitude of 4,16 m ~ reached throughout the quadrant. Closing of UF 2. Creation of two new UF:

*UF5 north of the line

*UF4 south.

- L9/1-4 UF 3: closed (probably temporarily) = end of the clearing of the sector opened by bulldozer. The workmen concentrate on squares L9/2 and 3.

- L9/2: * Cleaning of the sections:

- West section:

•dip of the packing layers in slope towards the north. (descending towards the N.)

- South section: • a very clear pit to the west filled with large stones. • dip of the packing layers (cf. 27/09) descending towards the East.

*Below the leached melted brick zone, from 3,90 m = grey earth mixed with very numerous gravel, powdery. Throughout the east part of the quadrant.

MATERIAL OF 26 September:

UF8 (I11/4) (cf. Excavation notebook J.C. Sourisseau): K95.448-458 9595.782-789 UF7 (I11/3) " " " : K95.465-468 (handles commercial amphora, lid cooking pot coarse ware, pithos...) UF6 : K95.766-781 UF1 (L9/2) - K95.469bis-479 (bowl rims, 1 Hellenistic amph body, 95.658-695 shells (BOZOEC 8 - no. 477 to 479), fish dish...) UF4 (L9/3) - K95.480-500 (plain white bowl rims, Sigillata bowl base, Hellenistic bowl base, knob lid, West Slope ware bowl, stamped handle (KEF 1064) amph. rims co ciales K95.719-748 Attic

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

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