| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 553 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Fill of robbing trench of wall 556, W portion | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 553 | |
| Date: | 2014/06/17 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2014-051 | |
| Stratum: | 30% small-medium subangular pebbles, ceramic sherds, glass, fragments of a human skull and other bone fragments | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light brownish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | This is the continuation of excavation of the robbing trench for N wall 556 of Unit 2, Room 2, at its W portion, begun in 1992. We have chosen to excavate here for multiple reasons. First, while cleaning this area we found visible various bone fragments, beginning with a partially preserved cranium. Second, there was a stratigraphic need for us to excavate this context next. See skeleton context 562 for the partially preserved cranium. This is a continuation of NB 839 B 13, 15, and 24. The original excavators dated this robbing activity to the Turkish period. Though the pottery of this fill date to the 14th century, it was cut from Turkish levels and thus the fill is the redeposition of Frankish material. Human + animal bones, 1.5 kg, saved in Bone LOT 2014-22. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. veneto, bowl. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .1 rouletted; Fineware. Roman11 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, pitcher. 4 handles. 17 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre Roman24 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. maiolica, pitcher. 1 handle. 11 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 rim. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 104 frag(s) 0.95 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 588 frag(s) 4.8 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 113 frag(s) 0.7 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bronze strip, 3; glass clear colorless folded tubular rim, 1; iron nail L .032 M, 1; iron nail shank square, 1; iron strip, 1; lead? Strip, 1; glass clear honey-colored, bs, 1; glass clear blue, bs, 1; glass clear colorless with applied blue threads, bs, 1; glass clear colorless, rim 2, bs, 9, base, 1; iron hook, 2; iron wire, 2; iron nail L .042 M, 1; iron lump, 4; glass clear purple, beaker with vertical ribs as MF 1992-43, bs, 1; iron nail L .059 M, 1; iron nails, 2; iron nail square shaft (L. .055), 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 14th century | |
| Grid: | 116.8-114.65E, 1066.4-1067.12N | |
| XMin: | 114.65 | |
| XMax: | 116.8 | |
| YMin: | 1066.4 | |
| YMax: | 1067.12 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.1-84.5m. |
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