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 43 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 43 of 62

Friday 4 October 198521

K 8/1 and 4 (extension of the UF) continuation of the UF 137 of cleaning; we stop at K 8/4 the UF but it continues in K 8/1 until the evening when it is closed. K 85. 487-493

K 8/4 [illegible] Opening of UF 138, 2 m wide over a NS strip, 5 m long. The head of wall 452 is cleared; it continues to the North with a fill of stones, several of which are dressed stones and it is flanked on either side (E and W) by marble slabs of length indeterminate, placed 46-50 cm from the top x (ht: 9 cm width 46 cm) The stone fill, sometimes laid flat, sometimes piled up with some bricks, receives the name of locus 456. The marmaro slabs are locus 457. The fill stops abruptly 2,20 m N of the wall 452, cut by a trench that _one can make out in section (E)_ ; one digs deeply into the fill new of this trench; one finds bones there equid bones, 3 hoof irons ?, material (1 object) in metal.

cf p. 23 !

Length of wall 452: 353; width: 80-90. cf p. 20 Length of wall 450: 270; width 60-50. -> against 2,20 m for 456

Recorded before UF 138:
K85. 422: 1 equid skeleton (pending)sherds UF 138
K85. 423 . 1 horseshoe for export
K85. 424 . 1 horseshoe= see K85 494-501
K85. 425 . 1 horseshoe (pending)on 7 October
K85. 426 . several fragments of iron

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

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