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 27 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 03 October 1995-

L9/2 - "Descente" in the whole of the quadrant. . To the S.E. (UF 12), rubble: uncut limestone blocks very numerous. Almost no sherds in this sector from 3,70 m. . Removal of floor 761, very brown and without sherds - Sample taken -> (UF 13)

L9/3 - "Descente" in UF 4 and 11: almost no sherds - Removal of part of the east baulk -> four coins and many sherds (UF 4).

L9/2 (continued): . Cleaning of the west face: wall 760 consisting of a stone foundation 40 cm high and of mudbricks preserved on one course only, makes (visible) 1,25 m long in the north/south direction, i.e. 3 bricks.

MATERIEL : UF 16 (L 9/2) : K 95.1170 UF 14 (I 11/4) : K 95.1109 - 1114

UF 4 (L 9/3 baulk): lot of 5 bronze coins. K 95.596 (= KEF 1070): MON 2 - Classical IVe s. (coin ?) K 95.597 (= KEF 1071): MON 3 - Alexander the Great K 95.598 (= KEF 1072) : MON 4 - IVe s. K 95.599 (= KEF 1073) : MON 5 - IVe s. K 95.600 (= KEF 1074) : MON 6 - K 95.906 - 931: commercial amphorae, plates with vernis IV, hellenistic bowls III s. UF 12 (L 9/2) : K 95.1011 - 1013 UF 11 (L 9/3) : K 95.940 - 941 UF 13 (L 9/2) : K 95.1031 - 1044 UF 9 (I 11/4) : K 95.964 - 973

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

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