Notebook·KEF_CF_160581_14·1985

Excavation notebook 14Jean-François Salles

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

Scan 11 of notebook KEF_CF_160581_14 (Excavation notebook 14), handwritten in French. The transcription and translation follow.

Scan: Maison de l'Orient et de la Méditerranée, Lyon, KEF_CF_160581_14, CC BY 4.0 (by permission of the Mission archéologique française de Kition-Salamine, 30 October 2026).

Unnumbered pageScan 11 of 62

- UF 105 : at the bottom of the trench, we find 5 remains of wall 432: a bed of plaster + stones there is nothing more [illegible] in the trench of foundation, which reaches at its base a floor Geometric

▲ . 2,27 m. . Geometric floor = bedding layer of wall 432

it seems that another trench existed on the north face of the wall . face completely plastered very particular fill: sandy yellowish earth + nodules = of shattered sandstone .

in J8/3, we trace on the floor the lines of the large trench wall 432 + trench 442 -> descent into the fill Classical + packing from the looting of the trench, to identify the robber trench of the wall = UF 109

- UF 108 . the excavation has not progressed far enough, but it seems that there is no return to the level of the stone } see p. 3 530 and that the wall continues } towards the East. to be verified.

UF 105 : K85. 89 -> 97 : Geometric = base of the foundation trench + Classical = fill of the foundation trench foundation. + residues of the south pit (cf. UF 109), Hellenistic and Roman. would the dismantling of the large wall 432 be Roman? it is certainly ancient: cf. compact settling of the earth of the base of the robber trench .

UF 108 : K85. 129-134 . Geometric + Classical . = coherent .

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

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