| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 571 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context Type: | deposit | |
| Title: | 5th Lens of Very Hard Sandy Surface | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1110 | |
| Context: | 571 | |
| Date: | 2016/06/02 | |
| Stratum: | bone, pottery, fine to coarse (mostly coarse) rounded to angular spherical to tabular pebbles | |
| 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 moderately sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | this context was the next lens of our very hard sandy surface (possibly a road). A softer strip of it was visible before excavation of 570 (which lay over most of 571), running along the cut in the bedrock to the south. Panos explained that the road would naturally be much harder towards the center, where people would walk, and softer closer to the bedrock, where people would not walk. Below the northern corner of the triangle (the rough shape of this context) was a flat patch of bedrock, apparently anthropogenic. We suspect that this patch indicates that we have reached the bottom of the road. Below this context lay a layer of rocky fill (573) in what seems to be quite a large cutting in the bedrock. A thin strip of soil (574) is laid over the edge of the cut. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. (saved to lot) .with flat base; Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. 3 rims. (saved to lot) .with incurving rim; Fineware. EH light-painted, bowl. (saved to lot) .with pushed in base; Fineware. EH black slipped1 rim. 15 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN MP2 rims. 15 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH red slipped1 rim. 36 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .incl 1 bs with mending hole; Fineware. LN Grey Ware20 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .incl 1 bs with ripple pattern; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished2 rims. 2 handles. 10 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. (saved to lot) .with ring foot; Fineware. EH light-painted3 handles. 50 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH red slipped, bowl. (saved to lot) .with flat base; Fineware. EH black slipped, bowl. 4 rims. (saved to lot) .with incurving rim; Fineware. EH red slipped, sauceboat. 1 rim. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 327 frag(s) 2.36 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| Context Artifacts: | bone 46, tooth 8 (saved to lot); shell land 12 (saved to lot); chert red 2 (saved to lot); obsidian 9, blade 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Chronology: | EH II | |
| Grid: | 353.2-351.15E, 1086.15-1089.15N | |
| XMin: | 351.15 | |
| XMax: | 353.2 | |
| YMin: | 1086.15 | |
| YMax: | 1089.15 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 80.22-80.43m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2016 0521 Image: digital 2016 0524 |
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