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 7 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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→ from the head of the wall towards the east, all the 3 zone I8/3 - H8/4 is disturbed by a very large pit (date ?) which goes down to the Geometric level.

the foundations of 432 reach the Geometric level

continuation of 432 towards the East . one can follow, on the floor or in the baulks, the continuation of trench 442 towards the east.

. block 530 is perfectly fitted into this trench. it rests against the south side of the trench. this block is isolated, does not belong to the Archaic level bears on one face traces of a tool.

. the trench does not seem to continue beyond the block 81 530, towards the east in any case, in the east baulk of H8/4, no trace of wall 432

=> block 530 = a buttress of wall 432 ? } a return towards the north of wall 432 ? }

in J8/4, UF 105, we uncover a fragment of a new buttress = 443

regularity of the distance between buttresses = 5 m.

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

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