Corinth Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 817
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Temple E, Southeast, context 817
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Title:   Strip next to Pit in Room 9
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1109
Context:   817
Date:   2015/06/02
Lot:   Lot 2015-046
Stratum:   30% inclusions, cobbles, ceramics, coarse pebbles, bones.
Description:   The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   Excavation began 2/6, finished the morning of 3/6.
Harder-packed layer surrounding softer context.
This surface was the upper base of Pit 808.
Coin 449- sieve
coin 450- sieve
coin 451- sieve
LN AMS: context 817 may be the last remnant of a level surface extending farther west and north.
24/06/2015 Larkin Kennedy, Rossana Valente
Animal bones: bovid, pig, extremely fragmentary (0.48 kg) all thrown.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .Poss Aegean ware; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225), bowl. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:   23 frag(s) 0.21 kg. (9% saved) fineware.
    179 frag(s) 1 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    49 frag(s) 0.3 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   glass clear brown bs 1 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish bs 2 (saved to lot); glass clear green tessera 1 (saved to lot); iron nail square shank 1 (saved to lot); iron strip 1 (saved to lot)
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   3rd quarter 13th c.
Grid:   130.1-129E, 1079.27-1080.22N
XMin:   129
XMax:   130.1
YMin:   1079.27
YMax:   1080.22
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.51-84.69m.
References:   Image: digital 2015 0843
Image: digital 2015 0844
Coin: 2015 449
Coin: 2015 450
Coin: 2015 451