| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 350 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Clay melt from wall | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 350 | |
| Date: | 2014/05/20 | |
| Stratum: | Soil ranges from medium to dark in color modifier. Slope of context varies from moderate to slight. Inclusions of tiles, stones (sub-rounded coarse pebbles and cobbles, some angular boulders), pottery, and bone (approximately 40%) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is moderate down to the E. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | After removing the layer of boulders and wall fall debris (context 339) we have exposed a large clayey deposit in which there is continued wall debris. This layer represents the melting of the clay coating of the E face of the wall. Several large boulders are included in this layer as they sunk into the clayey mass when the wall collapsed. We begin to remove this clayey deposit with small picks from the SE corner moving NW up the slope. We remove several large boulders and flat tiles as the continuation of the collapse of the wall. The removal of this layer reveals another clayey deposit underneath, but this one has large roof tiles as inclusions. This is what we had expected to find as some sort of roof collapse / disintegration must have preceded the wall collapse to allow water to seep into and down the wall to cause the melting of the clayey exterior coating. Five coins were found in the excavation (2014-153, 2014-155, 2014-157) and in the dry sieve (2014-151, 2014-154) of this context. Much pottery and some bone/shell, iron, glass, and a bronze fragment were collected in this context. Several interesting stones were removed which likely had been re-used as building materials for this wall. One is a cylindrical piece of marble measuring 0.23 m. tall with a diameter of 0.215 m. that has a rectangular cutting in the top measuring 0.09 by 0.06 m. another is marble fragment preserving an architectural moulding measuring 0.339 by 0.078 by 0.113 m. There was also a rather large piece of dark stone revetment found measuring 0.223 by 0.11 by 0.027 m. Finally, there was a fragment of sculpted marble, perhaps showing drapery, with some pebbly mortar adhering to its surface. This piece, measuring 0.247 by 0.112 by 0.049 m., was sent to the museum. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. glaze painted no overglaze, bowl. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. pendant triangle pattern; Fineware. Byzantine5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. mid 13th84 bodysherds. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Pre-Roman18 bodysherds. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Roman17 bodysherds. ; Fineware. painted sgraffito no overglaze; Fineware. monochrome protomaiolica, bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. glaze painted no overglaze, plate. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. stamnos. 1 rim. 6 handles. 30 bodysherds. matt painted | |
| Pottery Summary: | 137 frag(s) 0.85 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 908 frag(s) 5.8 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 167 frag(s) 0.7 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless, bs, 9; glass clear blue, small shallow bowl with infolded rim, rim, 1; shell, 1; glass clear brown, bottle, bs, 1, as MF 1774 and as context 271; glass clear green, bottle with ribs, bs, 1; glass clear colorless, rim, 1, original D: 0.10, joining context 339; glass clear blue, teardrop-shaped glass pendant, 1; glass clear green, rim, 2, bs, 6; iron, nail square shank, 3; iron, lumps, 4; shell, 1; glass clear blue, bs, 6; bronze, lump, 1; glass clear colorless, pronted beaker, bs, 5 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Grid: | 114.42-112.44E, 1075.86-1079.49N | |
| XMin: | 112.44 | |
| XMax: | 114.42 | |
| YMin: | 1075.86 | |
| YMax: | 1079.49 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.99-85.44m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2014 0493 Image: digital 2014 0494 Image: digital 2014 0495 Object: S 2014 2 Coins (5) |
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