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 12 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 12 of 62

Schematic sketch of trench 432

[(drawing)]

SN
floors
Archaic
0,801m,10
Geometric
floorswall 432
Geometric floor
fill of rubblefill of sandstone
+ pebbles +yellowish crushed.
earth

total width: 2.60 / 2.70.

Remark: the sandstone fill resembles that of the yellow Archaic walls: small blocks + crushed sandstone.

But absolutely nothing in situ.

Could there have been a large Archaic wall in the vicinity?

To correct: the wall is in fact in the middle of the trench, which widened to the south.

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

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