| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 281 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Skull in secondary bone pile | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 281 | |
| Date: | 2014/05/09 | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. | |
| Notes: | This skull was discovered as part of a pile of secondary, disarticulated human remains laid on the legs and next to the primary inhumation (BL 2014-04, skeleton 121) in Grave 2014-04, just east of the church threshold. It was first observed on 29/4 by session one excavators as extending through their originally planned grave cut to the east, and was one of the final reasons they had determined that their grave cut needed to be extended. Excavation on this skull resumed in session 2, when it was determined to be covered by the lower fill in this grave (dep. 242) and to be associated with a continuation of the disarticulated bone pile, though non of these elements are securely assocated with this skull. The top layer of the bone pile, including this skull, was photographed and removed together as it was surrounded by the same reddish, clayey matrix and seemed to have been deposited in the course of the same burial fill activity. It seems likely, therefore, that at least four individuals were placed in a pile of bones on the legs and feet of a fifth individual (the extended inhumation). The burial of the primary inhumation and the placement of the secondary bone piles was not far removed from each other and often touching one another. This skull is also laid against a large limestone block that is in a rough line (N-S) with other limestone blocks - possibly, therefore, signs of an early cist grave construction which was disturbed during the creation of cut 188. A flotation sample was reserved from the dirt in an under this bone pile, especially using dirt which had cradled this skull. | |
| Period: | Turkish I (1458-1680 AD) | |
| Grid: | 123.92E1070.61N | |
| XMax: | 123.92 | |
| YMax: | 1070.61 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.95-85.1m. |
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