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 25 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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Monday 2 October 1995-

L9/2: "Descente" in the whole of the quadrant except at the SW. under floor 761. - Discovery of a pit in the shape of a bean (cf. sketch at scale of 29/9/95), with very clear limits. = locus 763. Fill = a thin layer of small gravel and very many shells (→ sampling) overlying very homogeneous sand (→ sampling). Some very rolled sherds suggesting a beaten beach (material recovered from a beach ?) - datable to the 11th and 10th centuries, in a very homogeneous way. Upper altitude of the pit = 3,18 m. " lower = 2,87 m. Emptying completed this day.

L9/3: - NW. corner of the quadrant: * patch of orange floor very visible noted in section in the west face (at the north end) at the altitude of 3,71 m - found over a length of 0,35 m. Floor 761 in L9/2 being at 3,69 m, one can consider that it is one and the same floor (level geometric).

*patch of a grey floor found in the corner NW. of the quadrant at the altitude of 3,51 m = loc. 762. 3 sherds flat. area = less than 0,50 m². [not informative: K95.1167-1169]

- "Descente" in the whole of the quadrant except at the NE. in UF 5. Appearance of a thick plate of "marmaro" as a footing against of wall 759.

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

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