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 6 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 18 September 1995.

Cleaning of the sector down to the tennis court to the north. (including K9-3/4)

- Pillar 754 between ramps 490 and 488: east limit set back eastwards to clear the whole thickness of the pillar. (square I.10 - 2) + cleaning to the north, enlarging sounding preexisting up to north limit of square I10. = S 12.

- Opening of a sounding at J 10/1 in the alignment of pillar 460 to the north (between the ramps 494 and 491). (dimensions of the sounding: 1,50 m x 1,50 m). = Sounding 1 (S1)

- Opening of another sounding at J 10-1 / J 11-4 in the alignment of pillar 460 and to the north of the previous sounding. (dimensions of the sounding: 2 m in the North-South direction x 1,50 m East-West). = S2

NB: ex. grid square K 10

[(drawing)]

MATERIEL

- K9/3 ≃ 2,42 m (cleaning) K 95.3-4 (Hellenistic)

- I 10/2, above pillar 754: K 95.11-13 (Hell. and mod.)

- J 10/1: K 95.14-17 (mixed)

- J 10/1 - J 11/4: K 95.27-35 (Hell., modern, 4th c. BC) (Byz.?, pergam.,...)

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

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