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 21 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 21 of 62

Tuesday 24 September 198510

General cleaning of the mechanical digger works.

J8 / 3.4 = cleaning of trench robbing wall 432 + 2 foundation trench = UF 117 UF 117 : K85. 300 → 305 : mixed non-significant, Archaic Geometric. J7/2 : new UF 118, without stratigraphic significance = continuation of UF 114, within the thickness of the large white floors.

J 8/1 and J 8/4 : continuation of UF 113 north of the wall 432, which is exposed over 30 cm in height, the buttress 449, visible south of the wall, continues north ; a plastered coating is seen on the north face of wall 432, to the west and east of 449 . End of UF 113 K 85-172-188 (POB a) = KEF. 797

J 8/1 and J 8/4 opening of UF 119, which consists of descending north of wall 432 (in part of J 8/4 ; and in J 8/1 over a strip 1,5 m long by 5 m of width, along the edge of J 8/4) = trench E/W.

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

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