| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 552 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context Type: | deposit | |
| Title: | Very Hard Sandy Surface, South Portion | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1110 | |
| Context: | 552 | |
| Date: | 2016/05/30 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2016-037 | |
| Stratum: | marl, shell, gray clay, fine to medium mostly angular and subrounded (a few rounded) spherical to tabular pebbles, bone | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the NE. The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is well sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | this is the first context excavated in session III in 1R. It is the other portion of the large sandy surface thatcovered the entire visible portion of our trench-- the first portion was excavated last session as context 551. 551 and 552 were divided from each other by the large bothros 548. this surface came out in very hard, compacted chunks. It thinned towards the east. We attribute the lightness and unmoldability of the soil to lack of moisture-- it had been exposed for a week prior to excavation. Contrary to what we thought last session, 552 does not lie directly over fill, but over another surface (554) with many sherds trampled into it. This surface does not cover the full extent of 552, and 551 had more sherds than 552. perhaps this new surface, rather than 552, is equal to 551. at this point we are not sure, but all three seem to be part of the same surface. After we finished this context, panos proposed that this sandy surface is also a road, and indicated that he can see the traces of this road to the south, in the south side of the robbing trench 428. he associated the cut in the bedrock in which the road is laid in 1r with the cut in the bedrock in 2r, which was interpreted last session as the result of erosion, but now as an anthropogenic cut (possibly). The road appears to have been laid on fill that had been dumped into the cut, which was probably made before and with no relation to the construction of the road. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. EH Red-Slip, bowl. (saved to lot) .w/ disc foot; Fineware. EH Black-Slip (saved to lot) .closed vessel with flat base; Fineware. LN Grey Ware1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Matt-Painted2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH Black-Slip3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH Red-Slip6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .w/ incised cross hatching. Closed vessel; Fineware. EH Red-Slip, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .w/ incurving rim; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH Cream-Slip2 rims. 11 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .w/ fine incision | |
| Pottery Summary: | 30 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 24 frag(s) 0.12 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bone 15 (saved to lot); shell land 5 (saved to lot); pigment orange 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Chronology: | EH II | |
| Grid: | 353.7-351.65E, 1086.15-1089.5N | |
| XMin: | 351.65 | |
| XMax: | 353.7 | |
| YMin: | 1086.15 | |
| YMax: | 1089.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 80.5-80.57m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2016 0484 Image: digital 2016 0486 Object: MF 2016 41 Object: MF 2016 42 |
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