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 7 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 19 September 1995.

- Opening of a sounding in I-11/3 (=S3) north of pillar 754 - Dimensions: 2 m in the E / W direction, 1,50 m in the N-S direction.

- Opening of a sounding in J11-4 (2x2m) = S6

- Discovery in sounding S6 of a partly preserved wall = locus 755 at 0,10 m below the surface. Made of 4 stones, bonded under the limit east of the sounding. No associated floor found - Modern - in the fill around: 1 pile, a fragment of faience and a piece of glass. Top: c. 2,60 m. base: 2,52 m. cf see opposite Sketch made to scale + 1 colour photo. According to Andreas = wall which bordered garden until 1925.

- water at the foot of pillar 460 is at 1,76 m

MATERIAL (S11) - K 9/4 cleaning ≃ 3,90 m: K.95.18 - 26 (Hellenis- -tic and modern). (S 12) - I 10/2: K.95.36 - 41 (modern + tiles (?)...) (S 3) - I 11/3: K95.42 - 44 (tiles..) (S 1) - J 10/1: K 95.45 - 55 (Pergamene, Hellenistic). (S 1) - J 10/1 - J 11/4: K 95.56 - 62 (glazed, Attic, Byzantine?) (S 10) - K 9/3 (S 10): K95.104 - 111 (Hell., BR, murex...)

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

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