| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 4 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context Type: | deposit | |
| Title: | Cleaning- Removal of surface material and backfill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 4 | |
| Date: | 2014/04/07 | |
| Stratum: | 6% inclusions with stones (fine pebbles and cobbles) sub-rounded - angular, bone. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is moderate down to the N. The soil color is dark brownish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is silty clay. | |
| Notes: | Initial cleaing of backfill, from earlier excavations, to delineate stratgraphical layers. A rubble wall lies N-S on eastern side of the cleaning area. To the east of this wall is grayish brown packed soil, to the west there is loosely packed top soil. On the surface against the edge of the scarp is a patch of soil with coarseware insclusions there is a small rubble pile on the south western corner where the scarp was cut in. The western end of the scarp was shaped into a ramp so that it was passable for wheelbarrows. The northern side of the scarp started as a downwards slope. Between 0.5-1.0M of dirt was cleared on the first day, as well as several large, worked limestone blocks. On the north eatern side a wall was revealed 0.37M under the surface. A borthros was excavated at the corner of this wall and the bottom of the scarp. On the N-W side the cleaning stopped when the workmen came down on red, clayey dirt 0.23M below the surface. The north-western edge of the cleaning is defined by a modern water pipe. The northern side of the scarp is composed of modern fill from the construction of the museum. We are trying to determine the extent of this modern fill. After removal of the loose top soil, we stop excavation. The remaining surface is uneven due to extensive roots across the baulk, and there is a gradual slope downward from east to west and south to north. The soil on the western extent is reddish clay, on the east is light gray clay, and in the middle is loose and dark. The reddish clay of the west is on a lower elevation and clearly recognizable. Boundaries of soil elsewhere are much more difficult to determine. The southern scarp of the baulk was created in the 1994 excavation season and is recorded in NB 869, as well as the 1993 excavations in NB 859. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. exterior groove; Coarseware. Ottoman, pitcher. 1 rim. incised wavy line; Fineware. White Slip Painted Ottoman, bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. Kuhtahia, coffee cup. 1 rim. mending hole; Fineware. maiolica, bowl. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. Coroneika, pithos. 1 rim. ; Fineware. Red Slip Painted Ottoman, bowl. 1 bodysherd. linear | |
| Pottery Summary: | 63 frag(s) 1.3 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 125 frag(s) 4.5 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 14 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | lead seal (Coin 2014-92) INV (saved to lot); iron, nail, L. 0.10, complete, square shank, 1; bronze, ring, diam 0.025, 1 | |
| Period: | Early Modern (1831-1949 AD) | |
| Grid: | 112-100.51E, 1075-1081.5N | |
| XMin: | 100.51 | |
| XMax: | 112 | |
| YMin: | 1075 | |
| YMax: | 1081.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.1-86.57m. | |
| References: | Images (6) Object: MF 2014 66 Coins (7) |
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