Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 550

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 550
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Red relatively inclusion-free clay spanning room 2
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1108
Context:		550
Date:		2014/06/16
Lot:		Lot 2014-048
Stratum:		15% small-medium subangular pebbles, ceramic sherds, metal (e.g. small bronze cup)
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		This is a layer of reddish floor fill that spans the majority of this area (Unit 2, Room 2). This floor fill was overlaid in places by the whitish floor fill of deposit 546. There is black fill beneath some of this context. Furthermore, with the removal of this context we have revealed definitively the outline of the large pit cut near the center of the room that was indicated by a depression in the floor when we reopened excavations in this area. Removal of this floor layer also revealed the outline of a small pit cutting to the W of the large pit in the SE corner of Unit 2, Room 2. Fill 551 may in fact belong to this context, since the composition of both contexts appears to be so similar. Context 551 turned out to be the fill of a depression, comtemporary with deposit 550. Will will next proceed to excavate the fill of the pit in the center of the room whose outline we have finally revealed. We hope that this pit will contain pottery, coins, and other small finds that will help us to date pit, as well as to understand better the history of the use of Unit 2, Room 2. It was the depression that indicated this large pit's probable existence that first inspired us to resume excavation here. This is probably a fill layer in a series of floor fills that comprise a mottled white/red clay that makes it hard to differentiate different floors. Animal bones, 0.6 kg, saved in LOT 2014-48.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. slipped painted IV, bowl. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .glossy ware; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slip and glaze painted, bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. ; Coarseware. matt painted, pitcher. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glazed painted, unidentified. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. 2 handles. ; Cooking ware. folded rim1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matt painted, basin. 1 handle. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		52 frag(s) 0.38 kg. (77% saved) fineware.
		216 frag(s) 1.6 kg. (99% saved) coarseware.
		36 frag(s) 0.3 kg. (3% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass clear colorless, bs, 2; shell, 6; iron nail shank square, 2; iron nail shank round, 1; iron nail head, 1; glass clear green, bs, 1; glass clear brown, bottle as MF 1774, bs, 1; glass clear blue, strip with added zigzags, 1; glass clear bluish, beaker, base, 1; bronze nail, 1; obsidian flake, 1
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		Late 13th/early 14th century
Grid:		118.3-115.23E, 1061.8-1066.4N
XMin:		115.23
XMax:		118.3
YMin:		1061.8
YMax:		1066.4
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.96-85.04m.
References:		Image: digital 2014 0774 Object: MF 2014 59