Corinth Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 841
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Temple E, Southeast, context 841
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Title:   Rubble patch, south of room 9
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1109
Context:   841
Date:   2015/06/08
Lot:   Lot 2015-046
Stratum:   30% inclusions, mostly coarse pebbles, pottery, stones, some charcoal; sub-angular, tabular, bone
Description:   The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:   Excavations began morning of 9/6.
Coin 549 - sieve, cut or folded
Coin 550 - sieve
Patch with lots of stone and tile inclusions, perhaps associated with the similar small patch at the north (837). The surface above, 829, had fewer and smaller inclusions.
24/06/2015 Larkin Kennedy, Rossana Valente
Animal bones: sheep/goat, bovid, some spiral fractures (1.02 kg) all thrown.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. aegean sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. sgraffito with panther head (saved to lot) .; Fineware. frankish incised, bowl. 2 rims. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. blue frit, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:   67 frag(s) 0.55 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
    349 frag(s) 3.12 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    48 frag(s) 0.35 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   glass clear blueish bs 1 (saved to lot); bronze lump 1 (saved to lot); iron nail square shank 2 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish bs 1 (saved to lot); Flint nodule (saved to lot); glass clear colorless bs 1 (saved to lot); bronze wire 1 (saved to lot)
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   3rd quarter 13th c.
Grid:   131.78-129.78E, 1079.92-1081.43N
XMin:   129.78
XMax:   131.78
YMin:   1079.92
YMax:   1081.43
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.43-84.58m.
References:   Image: digital 2015 0887
Image: digital 2015 0888
Coin: 2015 549
Coin: 2015 550