Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 829

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 829
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Large Surface, East Half Room 9
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		829
Date:		2015/06/03
Lot:		Lot 2015-046
Stratum:		20% inclusions, mostly coarse pebbles, with bone, some ceramic, stones. Sub-rounded, tabular.
Description:		The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		Excavation began at the robbed out wall on the east, where we come down on a surface below. In afternoon heat, soil is greyish and silty. Fewer inclusions than the contexts dug previously, some pottery, stones, bones; many coins. It seems that the surface below is the same as that in the robbing trench to the east, and continues beneath the east wall. Excavation bagan afternoon of 3/6, continued 4/6, and finished morning of 5/6 in light rain. Above the cistern/well, the layer comes down on a semi-circular context with more small inclusions. The southern part of the context opens onto a rough patch with larger stone and tile inclusions. At the SE corner, comes down on a surface without inclusions that extends under the E wall and is cut by the well. At west limit, we come down on a line of rubble and stone inclusions that seems to match up with a similar line at the south, extending to the SE corner. LN AMS 21/6/15: It seems likely that the rubble of 820 to the southwest of 829 was preexisting. When leveling fill/surface 829 was constructed, a thin layer of dirt (812) may have been smoothed over the sop of the (slightly higher) rubble of 814. Or, this may have happened later. 24/06/2015 Larkin Kennedy, Rossana Valente Animal bones: sheep/goat, bovid, pig, limpet, other sea shells (7.9 kg) all thrown. Although the context was sieved 100% the faunal bones are extremely fragmentary, as if they were exposed for long period. The bones are consequently all thrown.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. frankish incised, bowl. 2 rims. 11 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 2 rims. 13 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. folded3 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 3 rims. 13 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260), bowl. 2 rims. 14 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225), bowl. 1 rim. 25 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		574 frag(s) 2.6 kg. (16% saved) fineware.
		2790 frag(s) 14.5 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		270 frag(s) 1.55 kg. (1% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass clear blueish green bs 4 (saved to lot); bronze wire ending in loop 1 (saved to lot); obsidian flake 1 (saved to lot); bronze strip 6 (saved to lot); glass clear green bs 3 (saved to lot); glass clear colorless bs 1 (saved to lot); glass clear light green bs 9 rim 1 (saved to lot); iron lump 5 (saved to lot); bronze ring 1 (saved to lot); bronze ring (Diam. 0.034) (saved to lot); bronze lumps 4 (saved to lot); bronze wire 2 (saved to lot); bronze hook 1 (saved to lot); glass kiln lining (saved to lot); glass clear brown bottle bs 1 (as MF-1774) (saved to lot); iron slag 2 (saved to lot); iron arrowhead? (L. 0.027) (saved to lot); iron ring 4 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish blue rim 1 bs 1 (saved to lot); glass clear yellowish prunted beaker bs 3 base 2 (as MF-2009-29) (saved to lot); glass clear yellowish prunted beaker bs 1 (saved to lot); iron tacks 5 (saved to lot); iron flat strip 9 (saved to lot); glass clear colorless bs 3 (saved to lot); glass clear yellowish bs 1 (saved to lot); Unworked chert pebbles 4 (saved to lot); glass clear blue tessera? 1 (saved to lot); iron nail square shank small size (H. 0.03) 58 (saved to lot); bronze circular section1 (saved to lot); Glass 4 (saved to lot); bronze spindle hook 2 (saved to lot); bronze tack 1 (saved to lot); iron nail square shank 16 (saved to lot); glass gold leaf tessera (INV. MF-2015-63) (saved to lot)
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		3rd quarter 13th c.
Grid:		132.54-128.3E, 1079.52-1086.25N
XMin:		128.3
XMax:		132.54
YMin:		1079.52
YMax:		1086.25
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.54-84.71m.
References:		Images (4) Object: MF 2015 48 Object: MF 2015 63 Coins (33)