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 25 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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Thursday 26 September 198512

J6/J7: continuation of UF 116. to be stopped today. without K85. 263 → -stratigraphic significance. continuation of the fill 299: homogeneous between late Archaic and Classical floors. Classical, Hellenistic intrusion. Cf. further on, UF 122 (postponed to the 27th). excavation SCE).

J7/2 continuation of UF 118. which reaches the Archaic floor 448 N 4.424.28 S = end of UF. 118

UF 118: K85. 318 - 331. homogeneous Classical/Archaic. all the 5th century. Baulk H8.3 + H8.4 / J8.1 + J8.2 = UF 121, continuation UF 121: UF 123 continuation of the UF towards the west. for K85. 332 - to clear the south face of 530 343 REL 3. chariot wheel Bichrome (1 Roman + varia. but = K85. 371 = KEF 791 homogeneous Geometric.

J 8/1 and J 8/4 UF 119 continuation. The buttress 449 has 90 cm of wide (EW) and makes a projection of 63 to 66 cm in lg to the north of wall 432 (≃ 60 to the south) → in its north face. Wall 432 is pierced by a hole 30 cm deep 8 cm in diameter; its outer edge is 53 cm from the top of the wall; 121 from the corner. Two other holes less deep and and wider appear on the east and west faces of the north projection of the buttress; forming two niches {East (23 l x 15 ht x 10 prof) {West (22 l x 17 ht x 10 prof) In the north-west corner of the area devoted to the UF appearance of mud bricks; 60 cm (NS) x 96 (EW) the whole extends towards the N. roughly top of the "wall" 451 of mud bricks: 4,96 top of wall 432: 5,50 → K85. 254 to 262 upper stone of wall 450: 5,07 KEF 797 and 312 to 317 KEF K85.

J 8/1 Opening of UF 124: north of UF 119 (closed); we continue clearing J 8/1, to determine the nature of wall 450 which seems to consist of only one course, rough and unplastered, and which appears to widen and sink towards the north; to isolate the construction trench which has destroyed? part of the wall ? 451 of bricks; and to see that whether there was a construction trench on the East East. We stay on the East, 2 m from the NS baulk. In UF 124 [illegible]. CER 4 found = frag. of krater red-figure, face, K85. 409. KEF 787

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

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