| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 130 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context Type: | deposit | |
| Title: | Fill of lower grave E of Wall 58 (Grave 2014-05) | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 130 | |
| Date: | 2014/04/22 | |
| Stratum: | Inclusions: pottery (2%), fine pebbles ( sub-rounded, 2%), bone and shell (2%) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | Context 130 is the fill of Grave 2014-05. The skeleton is Context 54. The cut is Context 165. The grave is oriented roughly N-S, directly adjacent to wall Context 58 in Unit II Room 6. It is the burial of an infant, perhaps between 9 and 12 months old. The skull at the N of the grave was revealed after initial cleaning of the room at the beginning of the excavation season. When excavation of the skeleton began, the skull was initially associated with some of the bones of a smaller infant later buried directly above it. This later grave truncated the top of the cut of Grave 2014-05 (Context X) at the E. Some of the soil around the skull of skeleton Context 54 was excavated as part of fill Context 13 before it became clear that a second burial had occurred. After the excavation of this later grave as Grave 2014-01 and the removal of its skeleton (Context 37), the L femur and tibia of skeleton Context 54 were visible directly beneath the skull of skeleton Context 37. We then opened Context 130 as the fill of Grave 2014-05, the top of which was compacted in several areas beneath the earlier grave. The fill Context 130 was clayey and firm in most areas, with some softer patches near the edges of the cut. There were few inclusions overall. From this context and associated with the burial were the small red, glass beads of a necklace (MF 2014-16). Red glass is rare in all periods. Directly S of the grave a bone pile is visible on the surface. This may be related to the disturbance of Grave 2014-05 and/or the previously excavated Grave 1996-6 immediately to the S. Stragraphically, this grave seems to have been cut into Floor 5 of the previous excavations of this room (NB 864 B56). This floor is dated by pottery to 1260s-1270s. The grave is sealed by Floor 4, dated to the last quarter of the 13th c. (NB 864 B52). Later notes (01.05.14): It was not possible to lift the entire skeleton of this grave before the end of the session (April 2014), therefore the grave fill has not been completely excavated and its pottery has not been analyzed. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. matt painted, stamnos. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 3 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 30 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 2 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear red, beads of necklace, L. 0.003--0.005, Diam. 0.004--0.006, 16 (INV) | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 3/4 13th c. | |
| Grid: | 118.4-118.04E, 1079.45-1080.14N | |
| XMin: | 118.04 | |
| XMax: | 118.4 | |
| YMin: | 1079.45 | |
| YMax: | 1080.14 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.25m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2014 0152 Image: digital 2014 0176 Object: MF 2014 16 |
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