| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 216 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | General fill N of room G, 3rd lens from top | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 216 | |
| Date: | 2014/05/06;2014/05/07 | |
| Stratum: | Inclusions of pebbles (stones mainly sub-rounded pebbles), tiles, pottery and bone (approximately 5%) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is moderate down to the N. The soil color is very dark brownish black. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Atfter having removed the clayey earth around the pit of context 31 we moved to the W to continue removing the general fill E of the N-S cut. We begin the removal of this fill of 6 May 2014 and continue for most of 7 May 2014. There are lots of tree roots in this lens which likely explains the very soft consistency of the soil. The removal of this layer reveals a harder packed and browner lense uunderneath. We continue to dig with the small pick following the soft, dark earth around the NE curve of the pit of context 40 (approximately N1077.8 - 1077.2, E106.0 - 107.0). The area around N1076.9 E106.75 reveals a large lump of clayey earth whose interface with the soft dark fill is unclear. Further cleaning in this area reveals the interaction of several different lenses, including one hard clay layer sitting atop another at N1076.66 E106.99, perhaps following the line of the medium-sized tree root. The vertical scarp showing us this relationship is somewhat worrisome, and we hope that we have not dug completely through the cut of a pit, but it is illuminating the relationship between two clay surfaces in the corner at N1076.66 E107.12. We then move further to the NE, around N1078.20 E105.33, to continue to remove the very soft, dark earth that may have been left due to the presence of tree roots. This area quickly becomes confusing as we reveal a patch of ash and what appears to be a cut in the layer with clayey earth around. There are several elements in this layer that indicate that we may be revealing the top of a destruction layer. Two full profiles of vessels were found broken and lying horizontally, one at N1075.77 E105.02 H86.12, and the other at N1076.31 E106.34 H86.03. Bits of charcoal were found scattered in the context as well as one pocket of ashy soil. Pottery, bone, shell (2 quite large), iron, glass, and a gold and bronze thimble were found in this context. An iron object, perhaps part of a door hinge, was found at N1078.46 E105.93 H85.84 and extending to N1078.45 E105.77 H85.82. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), bowl. late; Fineware. bowl. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd. ochre glaze; Fineware. maiolica, bowl. 1 rim. blue and yellow; Cooking ware. interior glzed mit. Cor. Cooking, pitcher. 1 rim. interior glaze, joining 231; Fineware. miscellaneous62 bodysherds. ; Fineware. venetto ware, bowl. 3 rims. 1 bodysherd. rouletted, joining context 231; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 handle. 5 bodysherds. combed decoration; Fineware. pre-Roman6 bodysherds. ; Fineware. scraffito arcaica po, bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. 6 bodysherds. non-joining 236 and 231; Cooking ware. mug. 1 rim. joining 236; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. ; Fineware. pre-medieval1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. maiolica, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. blue line | |
| Pottery Summary: | 98 frag(s) 0.8 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 394 frag(s) 5.9 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 21 frag(s) 0.12 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear blue, high footed goblet, base 1; shell, pierced?, 1; plaster, 1; tile waster, 1; iron, nail square shank, 5, indicative L. 0.072; glass clear colorless, bottle, bs, 1; iron, sheet, 1; glass clear colorless, bs, 1; glass clear blue, handle 1, bs, 2 | |
| Period: | Turkish II (1715-1831 AD) | |
| Grid: | 107.2-104.3E, 1075.1-1078.7N | |
| XMin: | 104.3 | |
| XMax: | 107.2 | |
| YMin: | 1075.1 | |
| YMax: | 1078.7 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.77-86.03m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2014 0313 Image: digital 2014 0314 Objects (4) |
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