Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 16

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 16
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Trench for modern water pipe
Notebook:		1108
Context:		16
Date:		2014/04/08
Description:		The context shape in plan is oval. The top break of the cut is sharp. The sides of the cut are mixed. The break at the base of the cut is sharp. The base of the cut is sloping to the NE. Truncation: Modern pit to the east; arbitrary broundary to the west.
Notes:		This cut was created to lay the modern water pipe. Along the south edge the cut is stepped. Either this was originallly overdug, overdug by the workmen or cut represent two cuts. It is most likely that this represents two cuts, the second, wider one perhaps from a repair of the water pipe. Finding the boundaries of the cut was easy, as the fill was fairly loose while the cut has a hard edge to it. The cut is truncated on both the east and west. To the east there was a previously excavated "modern pit" (NB 839 pg. 97, 99; B.35), which truncated the eastern limit. To the west, we have an arbitrary boundary by the edge of the current excavation area. It is clear that both the cut and the pipe continue west into the scarp. There is also a large tree stump to the north of the pipe with roots that extend under the pipe. This may have effected the north edge of the cut. The pipe continues to the east outside of our area of excavation. Later Notes: 10/4/19 (SMK) After reviewing NB 839, it is clear that the higher cut was made by the 1995 excavation of the water pip and then backfilled. The original trench of the pipe is the narrower, lower cut.
Period:		Modern Greek
Grid:		97-94.7E, 1070.15-1073N
XMin:		94.7
XMax:		97
YMin:		1070.15
YMax:		1073
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.57-86.17m.
References:		Image: digital 2014 0019