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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 4 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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Friday 12 September 1997

no pumps => no excavation. UF 101 = cleaning around the pillar in I 10/2 = Locus 754

Monday 15 September 1997

We have the pumps but no extension leads electric => technical unemployment. The cleaning around the pillar Locus continues (in I 10/2) = UF 101

Tuesday 16 September 1997

Towards the end of the morning the excavation of the sounding 15 is ready. It starts in early afternoon - general cleaning = UF 102.

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

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