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 9 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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Wednesday 18 September 198519 workmen 4 J.F. J7/2. end. UF 103. no sherds kept

Before continuing the descent of the fill Late/Archaic/ Classical, a pit 444 sealed by a Classical floor is identified

UF 106 pit 444 . emptying.

J7/4 - J6/1 . we resume the descent of the "catafalque" begun in 1984.

UF 107 descent of catafalque south

I8/4 : descent to the base of wall 432 . (cf. sketch p. 5)

UF 105 continued

H8/4 we open the square (largely excavated with a bulldozer in 81/84) to study the surroundings UF 108 of stone 530. (cf. sketch p. 5)

end of day 18.09

- UF 106 : the pit proves to be quite deep . it has cut into the Archaic floors over about 0.80 m and we have not yet reached its base. ash, bones many pebbles. apparently homogeneous material, Classical II

- UF 107 , nothing to report: we are clearing the large Classical floor little material.

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

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