Corinth Basket South Stoa, context 481

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		South Stoa, context 481
Area:		South Stoa
Context Type:		Deposit
Title:		Greyish fill alongside Late Foundation Trench
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1110
Context:		481
Date:		2016/04/20
Lot:		Lot 2016-012
Stratum:		Had dried to a greyish color similar to foundation trenches for Late Wall, but proved to be light yellowish-reddish brown on excavation. Inclusions of charcoal and bone.
Description:		Top slope of the context is moderate down to the NE. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:		Coin 122: 339.41, 1086.23, 81.11 Coins 123, 124, 125: sieve We open this context to excavate the strip of slightly greyer fill along the northeastern part of Room 4 Rear East, exposed during the excavation of Context 426. It was initially thought that this fill might prove to belong to the Late Wall foundation trench (Context 375), because of its similar appearance and the discrepancy in shape between the northern and southern foundation trench cuttings (cf Cuts 373 and 377), although this was somewhat problematic since the present context was overlaid by several layers of fill from the level of the foundation trench top. Although the deposit had a greyish hue on the surface, when excavated beyond the upper crust it turned out to be mostly orange-brown silty sand. We close when reaching the same level of bedrock/stereo found elsewhere in the vicinity. The fill traces a downward sloping depression in this stereo but it does not seem to fill a deliberate cut, on preserved evidence. A later note: two fragments of the same vessel (non-joining) were found in this context and in Context 455.
Context Pottery:		Cooking ware. Classical, stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. lid. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. kantharos. 1 rim. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .cyma; Fineware. kantharos. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .Attic; plain rim; non-joining w/ 454
Pottery Summary:		9 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		22 frag(s) 0.18 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		17 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		bone fish vertebra, 1 (saved to lot); charcoal, 11 (saved to lot); iron nailhead, 1 (saved to lot); bone fr, 7 (saved to lot)
Period:		1 st c. B.C.
Chronology:		non-joining with 454
Grid:		339.9-338.7E, 1085-1086.7N
XMin:		338.7
XMax:		339.9
YMin:		1085
YMax:		1086.7
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		81.05-81.45m.
References:		Image: digital 2016 0261 Image: digital 2016 0263 Coins (4)