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 33 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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Friday 06 October 1995_ (Last day)

L9/2

- end of the excavation in the trench in the extension of the removal 757 = UF 16 - 2.26 m reached everywhere at base → no bedrock.

- the trench is extended north of UF 13 in search of the bedrock - The level of 2.72 m is reached; in vain - But discovery at this level of a floor (remnant), very clear, hard, grey, traces of fire, 1 sherd flat not relevant = locus 768 to the North-west (cf. sketch to scale at 4/10/95) - End of the excavation on this floor and at the same level in UF 13.

- Drawing of the south face of the square (cf. opposite) and of the west face (cf. next page).

- There is nothing in the north baulk - L9/3

- end of the removal of the east baulk (north part)

- Drawing of the north face of the square (cf. following pages)

Recording of the levels at end of site (cf. sketch at 04/10/95) and general cleaning !

MATERIEL :

Surface (L9 - chance find) : K95.602 : MONNAIE ? : MON 8 - bronze Ptolemy ? III - _II_nd c.

UF 5 (L9/3) : K 95.1088 - 1108

UF 13 (L9/2) : K 95.1135 - 1142

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

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