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 29 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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Friday 27 September.14

J6/J7 . continuation UF 122. UF 122, K85.350-370. all Classical. J7/2. after the clearing of the Archaic floor 448, one finishes emptying the pit 444 UF 126 UF 126. K85.344-349. nothing extraordinary, Classical/Archaic halt of the excavation in this sector: the team J7/2 passes over the fill J6/J7 (UF 122), to reach more quickly the Archaic floor.

I8/H8 : continuation and end UF 123. levelling of the floor Geometric UF 123. K85.371-402 : homogeneous Geometric setting out and opening of H8/2, to look towards the north for the possible return of 432. UF 127

J8/1 continuation of UF 124 ; on the northern slope of the hill one is very close to the surface. Miscellaneous material including bottle 20th century. We close UF 124 after having cleared a strip N S of 2 1 m wide along the west baulk. One ne cannot follow wall 450 to the north, in the sector of UF 124

J8/1 and 4 Under UF 119 we open UF 128 to define the nature of the construction trench of the wall 432 and the limits of the « wall » 451 of brick flood. We restrict ourselves to the east of wall 450.

UF 124 : K85.403-409 : the sherds are apparently Classical (except 1 intrusion Roman: removal ? bulldozer ?) 1 archi : [illegible] . cover-joint 1 KEF. face in red fg.

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

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