| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 71 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context Type: | deposit | |
| Title: | Fill of grave at S, E of Wall 58 (Grave 2014-02) | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 71 | |
| Date: | 2014/04/14 | |
| Stratum: | Inclusions: ceramics (2%), bone (5%), coarse pebbles to cobbles (2% subrounded) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Context 71 is the fill of Grave 2014-02. The skeleton is Context 72. The cut is Context 125. This grave is E of Wall Context 58 of Unit II Room 6 and W of NB 864 Pit 10. This grave was truncated by two later burials, 1995-2 and 1996-5 (both in NB 864). Long bones (tibiae?) "probably" (NB 864, p. 98, 119; figure on p. 100) associated with the burial in Grave 1995-2 and left in situ were found directly on top of the femurs of Skeleton Context 72. They were removed and associated with the bone lot of this later grave (Bone Lot 1996 008). Grave 2014-02 was oriented W-E and extended partially underneath a pedestal of soil left after the excavations in 1996. The top of the cut was preserved only in this pedestal due to the the later burials, and was discovered and excavated in Context 95. Context 95 is therefore the same as Context 71. Elsewhere the fill of the grave is very shallow with a poorly preserved cut. The grave itself was revealed in sweeping (Context 3). We closed this context after the removal of the skeleton and a possible lining of ceramic sherds. A more clayey, slightly darker soil with grey streaky inclusions was revealed. Two fragmentary skulls were also revealed immediately below the skull of this grave, Grave 2014-02. Coin 2014-48 gives a post-1204 date for this grave. The pottery of the main fill (Context 71) was Frankish, but not more precisely datable. The associated fill at the E excavated in Context 95 therefore gives the date to this grave (Late 13th-early 14th c.). We believe that Grave 2014-02 is cut into Floor 7 of the previous excavations (NB 864, p. 118), left unexcavated by them. We believe we also reached this level under our Context 90. Floor 7 must predate Floor 6 (NB 864 B62), which is dated by the excavators to the mid-13th c. Bone saved as Bone LOT 2014-21, human and animal. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre-Medieval3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slip and glaze painted, bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre-Frankish11 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 17 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 106 frag(s) 0.5 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 36 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless, rim, 1, bs, 5; iron, nail, square shank, 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 13th-14th c. | |
| Grid: | 119.75-118.52E, 1077.91-1078.56N | |
| XMin: | 118.52 | |
| XMax: | 119.75 | |
| YMin: | 1077.91 | |
| YMax: | 1078.56 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.97-85.09m. | |
| References: | Images (9) Coin: 2014 48 |
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