| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 30 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context Type: | Deposit | |
| Title: | Cobble Construction Fill Along North Wall | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1109 | |
| Context: | 30 | |
| Date: | 2015/05/08 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2015-054 | |
| Stratum: | 905 boulders (cobbles from contrustion fill), subrounded. Some smaller coarse pebbles and cobbles (angular and subrounded) make up about 5% of soil matrix. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark brownish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey sand. | |
| Notes: | This context was excavated to determine if the surface below context 28 continues to the wall (North wall context____). It was initially left unexcavated because it contained no tile and the cobbles were placed in a conspicuously linear fashion. Upon excavation it was revealed that the cobbles were not very deep and seemed to be sitting atop the same surface running below context 28 (context____). The composition of the soil is slightly different from context 28 in that it is more clayey than silty. This might be because this context stretches along the north wall rather than sitting in the middle as context 28 does. To the east of this context and about .50m from the east wall the cobbles are larger and run deeper. The soil is also darker brown and looser than the soil in context 30. This area was consequently left unexcavated, though there was some exploration in the east side of context 30 so as to find the extent of the deeper cobbles. The north east boundary was extended to the eastern modern wall. It was initially left unexcavated, in case it overlied the robbing trench of the ancient Roman wall, and thus presented a different set of material and soil. However, context 32 was excavated along the eastern wall, south of 30, and revealed the robbing or foundation trench of the ancient Roman wall, and thus was a part of the ancient cut. The extent of the elevation of the cut was found, which also indicated that the cobble fill was of the same composition as that in context 30. 28 was more silty soil than 30. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. Roman, stewpot. 1 rim. ; Fineware. one-piece kantharos. 1 rim. ; Fineware. prehistoric2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Amphoras- M. w. j.1 bodysherd. grey fabric; Coarseware. Roman, basin. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. with interior glaze; Fineware. Rom- Çandarli, bowl. 1 bodysherd. Atalante form L19; Fineware. cyma kantharos. 1 rim. ; Fineware. Rom- Thinwalled ware, beaker. ; Cooking ware. Hellenistic, lid. 1 rim. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 51 frag(s) 0.07 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 76 frag(s) 0.88 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 52 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | burnt olive pit 1; bone unid 12; slate, 2; shell land snail 2; bronze, nail head, 1; terracotta, plaque, fragment 1; lead strip, 1; faience, white, 2; iron, chunk, 1; charcoal, 1; bone, unidentified, 1; iron, nailhead, 1; bone, burnt, 1; carbon, 2; shell flesh eater 4; iron, nail frags, 3 | |
| Period: | 2nd c. A.C. | |
| Chronology: | mixed | |
| Grid: | 329.5-324.2E, 1086.2-1088.75N | |
| XMin: | 324.2 | |
| XMax: | 329.5 | |
| YMin: | 1086.2 | |
| YMax: | 1088.75 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 81.34-81.5m. |
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