Corinth Basket: South Stoa, context 540
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   South Stoa, context 540
Area:   South Stoa
Context Type:   deposit
Title:   Sandy Fill in SE Corner of Trench
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1110
Context:   540
Date:   2016/05/18
Lot:   Context 540
Stratum:   bone, sherds, Angular to rounded, spherical to tabular fine to coarse pebbles with a couple cobbles
Description:   Top slope of the context is slight down to the W. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   we began this context at the end of 18/5 and finished it at the startof 19/5. it appears to be a layer of fill between 538 and the surface below. It is distinctly less rocky than most of the other layers of fill associated with the series of surfaces. It appears to be laid against a rocky layer of fill west of it, but we are not sure at this.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. LN Grey Ware, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH cream slipped1 handle. 14 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH cream slipped with fine incision1 rim. 7 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Grey Ware3 rims. 7 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .with flat rim; Fineware. LN Grey Ware, fruitstand. (saved to lot) .pedestal; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished, fruitstand. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .pedestal; Fineware. EH black slipped, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .with flat rim and relief band; Fineware. EH red slipped15 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN MP5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN polychrome1 rim. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH coarse, sauceboat. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH I red slipped, bowl. (saved to lot) .with flat base; Fineware. EH I red slipped, fruitstand. (saved to lot) .pedestal; Fineware. EH black slipped2 rims. 12 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:   102 frag(s) 0.69 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
    82 frag(s) 0.78 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
Context Artifacts:   shell land 1 (saved to lot); bone 40 tooth 1 (saved to lot); marble rim of cycladic vessel 1 (saved to lot); obsidian flake 3 (saved to lot)
Period:   Early Helladic
Chronology:   EH II
Grid:   353.8-352.25E, 1087.95-1088.7N
XMin:   352.25
XMax:   353.8
YMin:   1087.95
YMax:   1088.7
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   80.53-80.73m.
References:   Image: digital 2016 0448
Image: digital 2016 0449
Object: C 2016 21