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 9 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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Wednesday 20 September 1995.

- Sounding in I 11/3: discovery of a partially preserved wall = locus 756. 4 stones still in place - At 7 cm below the surface. See sketch at scale opposite + 1 photo C. No associated floor visible. Modern - In the fill around it, at the same altitude: faience and glass. Garden wall mentioned by Andreas (1925) Top at about 2,45 m. base at about 2,27 m.

- Thickness of pier 754 found: 0,80 m - After clearing it over some twenty cms, the sounding is stopped - Its north end has not been recleared because it is in the water today - (but length recorded in 1993).

- Opening of a sounding of 2 m x 2 m in I 11/4 = S4

- Opening of a sounding of 2 m (East-West) on 1,50 m (North-South) in J 10-2 / I 10-1 = S5

- Opening of a sounding in J 11/4 = S6

- Closing of the sounding in J 10/1 once the altitude of 1,83 m was reached, i.e. 1 m below the surface. Nothing to report. The groundwater begins to appear.

- Closing of the sounding in J 10-1 / J 11-4 once the altitude of 1,76 m was reached, i.e. 1 m below the surface. Nothing to report. The groundwater begins to appear.

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

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