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Corinth Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 53 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Basket | | Name: | | Temple E, Southeast, context 53 | | Area: | | Temple E, Southeast | | Context Type: | | Deposit | | Title: | | Fill of second pit on south scarp, 1st lens | | Category: | | Deposit | | Notebook: | | 1108 | | Context: | | 53 | | Date: | | 2014/04/13 | | Stratum: | | 10% inclusions of bone, iron, pebbles (fine-coarse), and ceramics. | | Description: | | The soil color is light greyish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | | Notes: | | We open this context to explore the dark, soft soil revealed first the excavation of another pit (context 39) and further in context 43. The darker, softer soil of the current deposit was clearly differentiated from the lighter gray compact soil of 43 to the east. The western boundary of the current pit is more diffuse, but nonetheless still discernible. The dirt being removed on the east side is slightly clayeysilt, and is easily differentiated from the clayey wall of the cut. Inclusions include bone, pebbles (fine-coarse), and ceramics. One heavy curved piece of pottery was removed. It preserves the rim. An iron nail comes was also removed on the west side. At 0.77m from the eastern most point the edge goes from silty clay to a harder clay with more and larger ceramic and rock inclusions. The edge of the cut is 0.20m more inward than we expected, judging from the thin layer of silt along the outside. The floor of the pit is defined by the same harder clay. It is all still a fairly uniform, medium grayish brown. As we clear the bottom east to west, we come down on another patch of ceramic at the same 0.77m elevation. The pit was clearly dug into two different contexts. 1)The eastern extent is the silty clay with fewer inclusions. 2) The west extent is also clay but with many more inclusions. The boundary between the can be seen at the bottom of the pit. The eastern half is (1), western is (2), but the dividing line curves from the center to the southwest, so that the edge of the scarp is almost entirely (1) except the last 0.40m.This fill is the first lens of two (context 76). The two stages of fill are likely the result of two natural fillings after a robbing event, or of two stages of leveling fill. | | Context Pottery: | | Coarseware. Koroneika, pithos. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed, lid. 1 rim. c-98-03; Fineware. plain glazed, bowl. 9 bodysherds. early modern; Coarseware. pitcher. 2 bodysherds. combed, c-63-529; Fineware. imitation porcelein, plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. frit1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Koroneika, plate. 1 rim. ; Fineware. plain glazed, pitcher. early modern, one handel; Fineware. Fran6 bodysherds. | | Pottery Summary: | | 23 frag(s) 0.3 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | | | | 40 frag(s) 0.34 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | | | | 7 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | | Context Artifacts: | | iron, nail, square shank, 1 | | Period: | | Early Modern (1831-1949 AD) | | Grid: | | 110.23-108.25E, 1076.79-1077.86N | | XMin: | | 108.25 | | XMax: | | 110.23 | | YMin: | | 1076.79 | | YMax: | | 1077.86 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | Masl: | | 86.16-86.31m. | | References: | | Image: digital 2014 0060
Image: digital 2014 0061
Image: digital 2014 0062
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