Notebook·KEF_CF_132583_11·1997

Excavation notebook 11Jean-Christophe Sourisseau

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Handwritten in French. Every line is transcribed and translated, and the English sits beside the scan.

Scan 13 of notebook KEF_CF_132583_11 (Excavation notebook 11), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_132583_11, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

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Monday 29 September 1997

Sounding 17. excavation of UF 105.

Sounding 16. excavation of UF 106. ↳ section of the sounding starting from the pump hole. Under the Roman fill, level of pebbles = upper beach of Hellenistic period. = UF 109.

Sounding 15. Partial dismantling of locus 801. essentially composed of stones laid in bulk, it now seems unlikely that it is the foundation sill of foundation of a pillar of the building Classical. Material to be looked at closely (seems Hellenistic) = UF 107.

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

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