| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | NB81 B1 P201 | |
| Area: | Korakou | |
| Title: | Trench I, A I | |
| Category: | Basket/zembil | |
| Notebook: | 81 | |
| Context: | 1 | |
| Page: | 201 | |
| Date: | 1915/05/07 | |
| Stratum: | Trench I, A I | |
| Notes: | Trench I On SE side of the hill in a place where there are two {banks} one above the other we are digging a transverse trench from S.E. to N.W. ca. 1.00 m wide. We are digging in sections of 2 - 2 ½ m. [plan of Trench I showing four excavated sections labelled A, C, E and g, of equal length between unexcavated sections of the same length] [section drawing showing slope of hill with sections A, C and E labelled] [p. 202] We are digging independently in these 3 sections and keep the pottery separate. We go by passes or tabania of ca. 0.20 m. The first passa I call "I". All pottery is carefully gathered into baskets marked according to section AI CI EI. When the first passa is finished, the baskets are removed and empty ones substituted. These are for the 2nd passa. And will be labelled AII CII and EII. In AI and EI, on account of the slope and washing away the pottery is likely to be a bit mixed. In CI there is a good proportion of Urfirnis. [p. 341] A I: 0.00-0.20 Characteristic is Urfirnis 30 sherds of black and, 15 of red surface and, 1 decorated. The Urfirnis is chiefly sketo but one piece has a hatched pattern. The sketo ware is generally yellow green clay covered with poor sort of matt brown-black paint. The red is generally better. Minyan 5 sherds {2 real 3 polished imitation Mycenaean 2 sherds One small piece with anthemium pattern in white on black paint (Greek). One small piece with this pattern in [sketch of sherd=deep bowl with triglyph pattern] Looks like Urfirnis brownish-black paint but seems wheelmade perhaps Mycenaean? (LM III) [James and Nakassis= this may be a caption note for the sherd sketch since it is immediately to the right of the sketch] [Tzonou-Herbst= the notes above are organized in two columns one on each side of the sketch of the sherd and describe the sherd] 10 small fragments of obsidian Coarse unpainted sherds 9. [MN= 52] [Tzonou-Herbst= the number 52 written on the margin of the pottery description sums up the total number of sherds from the passa]. | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | mixed, mostly EH, some MH and LH with 1 West Slope Ware | |
| Site: | Korakou | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | -0.2m. |