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 39 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 3 October 198519.

J6/J7 . continuation of UF 129 under a new UF in order to speed up the sherd , UF 134 at the North we reach the final Archaic levels UF 129 . K85. 449-479 . homogeneous 5th/4th

H8/2 , continuation of UF 131 to finish clearing the floor and the North of wall 453. descent of Baulk H8/2 - H8/3 under UF 136 UF 131 . K85. 480-486 , mixed (myc, arch. class.)

in J6/J7 , we stop the descent of the catafalque to the South. levelling of the North part.

cleaning of the N/S section , which reveals the Classical and Archaic floors in place + , towards the south, a very clear trench (of excavation?), apparently from the surface, about 1.20 m wide, base not identified.

in H8/2 : it appears that wall 453 does not continue towards the North : it stops about 1.20 m before the baulk south North , its North face is plastered. between the head of the wall and the North baulk, a sort of fill of unbonded blocks : cf. the false wall 450 in J8/1-4

it also appears that the level of the beaten earth floor (± 2.69) is exactly the same as that of the Archaic levels in place (or rather Geometric in function of the rest of the site) recorded in the trench of foundation of 432 → paving 455 is the counterpart, for wall 453, of paving 447 bordering wall 432, but at a lower level. → the Classical building seems to have been installed in a gigantic pit dug at this level, except for the external walls, founded lower (at 2.35)

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

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