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 23 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 23 of 62

Wednesday 25 September 198511

J6/J7 : continuation of UF 116, descent into the fill Classical. see more far J7/2 : continuation of UF 118, descent into the fill Archaic.

H8/3 : UF 120 continuation of the cleaning of the trench dug with the mechanical digger we are looking for the continuation eastwards of wall 432. EOB 6 : loom weight, KEF 780 UF 120 : K85. 306 - 310 - Mycenaean → Classical. J8/1 and J8/4 continuation of UF 119 in 119 : EOB 8 : tile, Classical, red paint. KEF ARC 97

The buttress 449 also forms a projection to the north of the wall 432, the buttress seems to continue northwards by a wall which remains to be defined.

J6/J7 : a large crushed deposit of pottery.... pit ? CER 3 : local krater, painted, Bichrome ? (K85. 264 ) KEF 784 REL 2 : bull protome (K85. 263 ) KEF 785 CER 5 : PW plate, Archaic or Classical (K85. 265 ) KEF 800

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

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