Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Basket | |
Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 658 | |
Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
Title: | rocky fill in NE corner of corridor | |
Category: | Deposit | |
Notebook: | 1109 | |
Context: | 658 | |
Date: | 2015/05/04 | |
Lot: | Lot 2015-023 | |
Stratum: | inclusions: 10% pottery, bone, tile, brick, charcoal | |
Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the W. The soil color is light greyish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
Notes: | Thanassis wanted to dig this patch of rocky material in the NE corner before clearing around the linear feature found while digging 655. This context (658) is similar to 655, but the soil is softer. Flecks of charcoal are appearing, evenly distributed, pebble-sized. Work continues in NE corner, 2015/05/04 End 2015/05/05 This layer slopes down considerably to the north - even undercutting wall 156. It is likely a leveling layer of fill in order to prepare the sloped surface below for the walls built above. The surface underneath which is now appearing has much less charcoal and in smaller deposits. The rocks which had been so characteristic of this layer in the NE corner became much less frequent as we moved to the west, so we decided to create a new context (662). The matrix, however, appears to be the same according to the workmen. 3/06/2015 (L. Kennedy, R. Valente) Animal bones: bovid, pig, sheep/goat, limpet, 1.94 kg, all thrown. | |
Context Pottery: | Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260), bowl. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Plainware. matt painted, pitcher. 1 handle. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. frankish incised, bowl. 2 rims. 11 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. folded rim, stewpot. 3 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. champleve', bowl. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. blue frit1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted III, slipped (1160-1200), bowl. 2 rims. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
Pottery Summary: | 104 frag(s) 0.55 kg. (26% saved) fineware. | |
954 frag(s) 7.44 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
135 frag(s) 0.77 kg. (2% saved) cooking ware. | ||
Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless greenish BS 2; iron nail with square shank 1; bronze fragment 4; glass clear colorless BS 1; glass clear colorless blueish tubular rim 1; iron strip 1; crucible, bs 1 (saved to lot); bronze sheet 1 | |
Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
Chronology: | mid - 3rd quarter of 13th century | |
Grid: | 129.6-127.15E, 1076.2-1078.5N | |
XMin: | 127.15 | |
XMax: | 129.6 | |
YMin: | 1076.2 | |
YMax: | 1078.5 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
Masl: | 84.353-84.518m. | |
References: | Image: digital 2015 0544 Object: MF 2015 12 Coin: 2015 61 |