Corinth Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 642
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Temple E, Southeast, context 642
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Title:   Defining edges of Pit in South of Room 9
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1109
Context:   642
Date:   2015/04/28
Stratum:   medium angular tile pieces, fine subrounded pebbles, small pieces of charcoal (few), rare whitish inclusions, few angular cobbles. 40%
Description:   The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:   Elevation of 84.90 is the top of the rocks in the pit. Top of the soil in the pit is elevation of 84.83. This context represents the top most lense of the fill of the pit and definign the edges of the pit before it will be excavated in the next session. The small pile of 6 rocks in the western half ot he pit were removed with this lense. Context 642 was done on the final day of session 1 excavation in preparation for excavation of the pit in session 2.
Photo: 514
01/06/2015 (Larkin Kennedy, Rossana Valente)
Animal bones, 0.08 kg, all thrown.
Context Pottery:   Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 handle. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. veneto, bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), bowl. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. matt painted, stamnos. 1 rim. 1 handle. 4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Pre-Roman2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. late painted sgraffito, bowl. 1 rim.
Pottery Summary:   12 frag(s) 0.006 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    61 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    24 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   glass clear colorless bs 3 (bumps as on MF-14171); iron band 1 (L. 0.02, W. 0.016)
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   14th century
Grid:   130.25-129.8E, 1080.1-1081.13N
XMin:   129.8
XMax:   130.25
YMin:   1080.1
YMax:   1081.13
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.77-84.9m.
References:   Images (4)