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 13 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 13 of 62

Thursday 19 September 1985same sketch as 6 the day before. J7/2. continuation UF 106, pit 444

J7/4 - J6/1 , continuation UF 107, clearing of Classical floor UF 107 : ▲ = 5,11 m. ( idem terrace J4) K85.149-164 = homogeneous Classical II I8/4. cleaning of wall 432 at the base of its foundation trench of robbing

I8/3 : excavation of trench 442 + robbing trench of wall 432

H8/4 : it appears that wall 432 indeed crosses the square towards the east, even if the possibility of a return at the height of 530 remains. the full width of f the foundation trench of 432 is visible. ≃ 2.70 m. UF [110] : new pass inside the trench.

J7/2 : we provisionally abandon the emptying of the pit 444 to resume the clearing of the floors. UF 106 : K85.98 ➔ 128 : homogeneous Classical II, a lot of Attic. UF [111] clearing of the upper white floor.

J7/4 . J6/1 . = clearing of the Classical floor [445] over the whole the surface of the catafalque

UF [112] passage under the floor.

end of day : J7/4 - J6/1 , UF 112. RAS.

J7/2 . = UF 111. RAS.

H8/4 , UF 110 = still the same fill : crushed sandstone, platras, etc.... RAS.

I8/3 , UF 109 , we finish cleaning the trench and stop the excavation in this sector. UF 109 : K85.165-171, mixed geometric + Classical Setting out of J8/1 and J8/2, north of wall 432

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

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