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 31 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 31 of 62

15 Monday 30 September 1985

UF : 128 J 8/1 and /4: Locus 451 in brick and brick earth is defined as a massif and not a wall Wall 450, very amorphous, seems very shallow (one course of various stones, laid on rubble). The fill of the trench is made of plaster rubble, kunnos, sand and goes down to the massif 451. We close UF 128. UF 128 = K85-427 - 438 = mixed (1 Roman), but mainly Classical

J 8/1 and and 4: West of wall 450 and of its hypothetical extension towards the North. We open UF 130 in depth. intended to check 1° this hypothetical existence of the wall 450 north of the 1.50 line (cf. drawing opposite page 11) 2° the depth of this wall 3° the similarity or not of the fills west and east of this wall 450.

J6/J7: continuation of descent of south catafalque with two teams (UF 122) we change UF to speed up the sherd. UF 129, without floor passage (attention: a piece of the Swedish fill remains to the south -> intrusive Hellenistic material. -> or unknown trench: cf. section S/N = p. 19.

H8/2: continuation UF 127: large blocks in the middle of the square could mark a return of 432 towards the North.

Tuesday 1 October 1985

day off

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

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