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 19 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).

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Monday 23 September 1985⑨

J6/J7 . continuation UF 112. = EAA 2 (= K85.228). Hellenistic bowl base with graffito. KEF 794 J7/2 . continuation UF 114 LAM 1 (K85.204) : Archaic half lamp with saucer. KEF 792 J8/1 . continuation UF 113.

I8/4 . UF 115 cleaning of the square, after end of excavation of 18.09 -> we find : - a plaster edging, evidence of the wall's robbing, north face. - the pavement bordering the wall to the north = 447. - a plaster edging returning north, opposite buttress 443 - extremely hard green floors: waiting bed + settling under wall 432 and under the north return. Could there be a joint at each buttress?

end of day : J6/J7 . continuation without stratigraphic change, but in order to "lighten" the UF in progress, we change UF. = UF 116 UF 112 . K85.218 -> 240 . Classical + 1 Hellenistic intrusive ! J7/2 . UF 114, continuation, nothing to report UF 114 . K85.188 -> 217 = Classical, Archaic. J8/1 . UF 113, continuation. Nothing to report. It would seem that the wall of north partition wall has been robbed ? . . . to be seen.

I8/4 . end UF 115. Nothing to report, nothing kept

work with mechanical digger (16:30 - 18:30) to speed up the uncovering of wall 432 along its whole length, we lower with the mechanical digger the square: H8/3 (without baulk with H8/4) I8/3 (between UF 110 and UF 115)

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

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