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Introduction:
This is the final report for the second session of excavations of the 2015 season for Room 3, Unit II in the area of Temple E SE. In the 1990’s, Room 3 was divided by the grid system and, ... 3 as a location to dump ... Room 3, Unit II in the area ... 1990’s, Room 3 was divided by |
| Deposit 1104 6761 0 50% inclusions: tile, pottery, bone, stone (medium pebbles-cobbles; angular; spherical-tabular) The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly ... Middle Byzantine NPD (9th/10th) ... 50% inclusions: tile, pottery, bone, stone (medium pebbles-cobbles; angular; ... Context 6762 is a dumped ... tile, pottery).
As digging |
| Slightly curved Mostly fugitive decoration (probably originally dark brown). Exterior: lower zone, bands of 6 horizontal lines; leaf-shape head and body of snake at a diagonal (eyes in reserve); to right, ... Early Protocorinthian ... 2.5 Y 7/3 (pale yellow) |
| Broad receptacle with grooved rim to hold lid; low ring foot with flat slanted resting surface; reflex horizontal handles. Low conical lid with bent rim; large hollow knob formed of two truncated cones ... Corinth 15.3, 372; Benson 1983 |
| Deposit 1111 68 Mixed with patches of reddish soil, likely associated with a few large pieces of mudbrick. 5% tile toward the top, less further down; less than 5% ceramic material; less than 5% rocks and ... Late 11th to early 12th century ... Mixed with patches of reddish soil, likely associated with a few large pieces of ... and we collected a few ... (e.g. 0.11 x 0.26 x 0.22 |
| Small pyxis or lekanis lid. Rounded vert. lip, convex body, compound curve into a flat-topped knob handle. Conventionalizing style. Interior undecorated. Exterior black-red band near lip, then line, band, ... 10YR 8/3 (very pale brown) |
Cf. C-1937-1839A. Fragment. Single frgt., body to lip, ca. 1/8 circum ... 1937/11/13 ... Pottery |
| See C-1934-0822A. Fragment. Single frgt., upper body to lip, ca. 1/10 circumference ... 1934/06/05 ... Pottery |
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