Corinth Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 843
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Temple E, Southeast, context 843
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Title:   Surface East half Room 9
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1109
Context:   843
Date:   2015/06/09
Lot:   Lot 2015-048
Stratum:   20% inclusions, pottery, tiles, mortar/plaster (small amount), bones, few cobbles/coarse pebbles
Description:   The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:   843 is surface which is the bottom of E wall, and which continues under Ewall, though several centimeters below wall foundations. Fairly flat and leveled, but not clearly packed. Could be surface or leveling fill.
Below, coming down on uneven level in SE part of Room.
Dirt is fairly compact, comes out in lumps.
Coin 553 - sieve
Coin 554 - 129.74, 1085.15, 84.56
Around well, came down on uneven layer (a later context) with cuts (?) and boulders, tiles. In NE corner of room, another mostly level packed context. E half of room is no longer same context going forward. 843 extends farther W in N than 829 did.
24/06/2015 Larkin Kennedy, Rossana Valente
Animal bones: oyster, bovid, limpet, sheep/goat (0.95 kg) all thrown.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. blue frit1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. glazed painted 4, bowl. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. early 13th c incised1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225)4 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:   47 frag(s) 0.27 kg. (2% saved) fineware.
    313 frag(s) 3.3 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    24 frag(s) 0.18 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   glass 2; bronze pin or needle 1
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   3rd quarter 13th c.
Grid:   132.58-128.22E, 1079.6-1086.7N
XMin:   128.22
XMax:   132.58
YMin:   1079.6
YMax:   1086.7
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.45-84.6m.
References:   Image: digital 2015 0911
Coin: 2015 553
Coin: 2015 554