| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | NB982 B88 P157 | |
| Area: | Panaghia north | |
| Category: | Basket/zembil | |
| Notebook: | 982 | |
| Context: | 88 | |
| Page: | 157 | |
| Date: | 2007/04/12 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2007-001 | |
| Stratum: | Cistern 2006-01 fill. Light, reddish brown, fine grained soft with 30-40% inclusions with medium coarse pebbles. Poorly sorted. Silty sand. | |
| Notes: | This basket is a continuation of basket 87, continuing down through the western fill of cistern 2006-01. A bronze coin was found at E 410.64, N 974.76, elevation 90.07. The new basket was begun after an arbitrary stop, however when we re-started we found the soil to have more inclusions: medium course pebbles. While the soil description has changed, while removing the soil we have not noticed a huge stratigraphic change. The charcoal bits continue to be found as do the tile fragments. We have noticed grater inclusion of mudbrick which may account for changes in the soil. A terracotta femaile head was discovered at E 410.40, N 975.76, elevation 90.05. After the workmen finished one pass, we decided to change baskets. As noted above, the top of the basket was filled with pebbles, however as the pass was completed we came upon a fair number of cobble to boulder size inclusions. This new layer also appears in the artificial scarp created by excavation in the eastern half of the cistern in 2006. Based upon our digging and the scarp, it seems that we have reached a different type of fill with more and larger inclusions. Although already noted, we would stress that frequent chunks of reddish mudbrick appeared throughout the entire basket. There was much more mudbrick in this basket than any of the previous baskets in the western half of the cistern fill. All soil was dry sieved except for a bag of soil collect for water sieving. Small finds from basket 88 included bone, shell, bronze wasters or iron slag (?), and wall plaster. Photographs were taken following this basket (Photo numbers BW-2007-11-05, JPG-2007-0167, BW-2007-11-06, JPG-2007-0168). | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. Flanged chytra rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Deep lekane rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Bowl with bevelled rim rim 4 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Flanged casserole rim 3 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Cyma kantharos rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Blister ware ribbed aryballos bs 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Blister ware bs 2 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Corinthian B handle 1 rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. One-piece kantharos rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Saucer rim 3 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Corinthian A handle 1 bs 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Ray based kotyle Attic foot 1 rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Calyx kantharos rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Saltcellar rim 2 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Lekane rim 2 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. One handler rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Bell krater bs 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Chytra rim 2 (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 76 frag(s) 0.34 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 141 frag(s) 3.37 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 82 frag(s) 0.56 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Iron tacks 3 circular head and short shank max diam. head 0.025 max L.0.021 (Sim to C. XII. 1035) (saved to lot); Roof tile fragments 56, 9.6 kg; Roof tile 11 (saved to lot); Iron slag fragments 3 (saved to lot); Bronze lumps 2 corroded (saved to lot); Small carnivore mandible 1 (saved to lot); TC female figurine head Similar to MF-11828 (Corinth XVIII.IV no. C 136) (saved to lot); Bronze lump 1 corroded L. 0.013 W. 0.007 Th. 0.004 (saved to lot); Pithos rim rim 1 (saved to lot); Shell cardia 1 limpet 1 unidentified 1 (saved to lot); Wall plaster red 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | 3rd c. B.C. | |
| Chronology: | First half of 3rd c. B.C. | |
| Grid: | 412.04-410.24E, 974.53-976.3N | |
| XMin: | 410.24 | |
| XMax: | 412.04 | |
| YMin: | 974.53 | |
| YMax: | 976.3 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 90.02-90.25m. | |
| References: | Images (4) Coin: 2007 17 Coin: 2007 29 Coin: 2007 30 Notebook Page: NB 982, spread 91 (pp. 157 - 158) |
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