| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 537 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context Type: | deposit | |
| Title: | Fill with Few Cobbles Between Two Surfaces | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1110 | |
| Context: | 537 | |
| Date: | 2016/05/17 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2016-040 | |
| Stratum: | mostly medium and coarse pebbles, a few cobbles, rounded to angular spherical to tabular; some stones appear to be water worn; bone, sherds | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the W. The soil color is dark brownish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silt. | |
| Notes: | this rocky layer lay between two surfaces (536 and 538). It appears to be fill. It is the first layer of fill between surfaces that we have encountered in this trench; before now all our surfaces have been laid on each other. In this respect our surfaces are quite different from the three surfaces we excavated in 1R (388, 442, 500), between which lay several layers that we interpreted as colluvium. Walter Grauss yesterday looked at the scarp in 301, however, and doubted that we had colluvuium in this trench at all-- he said that he would expect more homogeneity in colluvium. The edges of our pottery and stones have been mostly angularand sharp, whereas if they were deposited by water action one would expect them to be smoother. Walter suggested that in 1R we have a single dumping action., and that the surfaces were formed when the fill was trampled down. In this context we found a round stone (MF-2016-22) with a flat, apparently broken surface, which may be marked by tools. We have found several such stones in these prehistoric contexts. This context was much thinner in the east. We think that this context may be leveling fill for a significant remodeling of the surface, hence the very little overlap between 536 and 538. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. (saved to lot) .with ring foot; Fineware. EH incised, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH red slipped coarse, sauceboat. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH red slipped, sauceboat. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH cream slipped, bowl. (saved to lot) .with pushed in base; Fineware. EH cream slipped with fine incision1 rim. 26 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH red slipped2 handles. 42 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Grey Ware, ritual vessel. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .leg; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .with incisions; Fineware. LN Grey Ware, fruitstand. (saved to lot) .pedestal; Fineware. LN red on buff, fruitstand. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .bowl; Fineware. LN Grey Ware1 handle. (saved to lot) .with incisions; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished9 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH cream slipped1 handle. 19 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .with relief decoration; Fineware. LN MP3 rims. 15 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN MP, fruitstand. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .pedestal; Fineware. EH black slipped, bowl. (saved to lot) .with ring foot; Fineware. LN Grey Ware, fruitstand. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .bowl; Fineware. EH black slipped5 rims. 33 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Grey Ware4 rims. 1 handle. 34 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Eh red slipped, bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .with incurving rim; Fineware. EH black slipped, bowl. (saved to lot) .with flat base; Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .with flat rim | |
| Pottery Summary: | 231 frag(s) 1.5 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 20 frag(s) 1.21 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bone 27 (saved to lot); Chert red 1 (saved to lot); shell land 11 (saved to lot); Stone grinder 1 (saved to lot); obsidian flake 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Chronology: | EH II | |
| Grid: | 353.9-351.6E, 1087.3-1089.2N | |
| XMin: | 351.6 | |
| XMax: | 353.9 | |
| YMin: | 1087.3 | |
| YMax: | 1089.2 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 80.64-80.83m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2016 0427 Image: digital 2016 0432 Object: MF 2016 22 Object: MF 2016 37 Object: MF 2016 38 |
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