| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 429 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Hard-packed walking surface north of wall 20 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 429 | |
| Date: | 2014/06/03 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2014-044 | |
| Stratum: | 25% coarse angular pebbles, ceramic sherds, bone, coin | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is light brownish brown. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | We moved over to the removal of the hard-packed walking surface N of wall 20 in order to explore the relationship between three surfaces: 1. a hard-packed surface at the E end of the trench (later numbered 438) 2. the area marked out for this context 3. the unxcavated area W of the N-S trench that forms the W boundary of this context When we removed this surface we found another big (Diam. 0.15 m.), (filled -in posthole that appears to fit into sequence with two pairs of post holes excavated by Maggie Burr and Dylan Rogers. These post holes appear to support either a temporary roofing structure or scaffolding with the S section of this corridor. We also found a series of smaller postholes whose function is unclear as of yet. They are closely clustered and small (don't appear to be weight-bearing). Finally, we exposed the N edge of what we believe to be a grave boundary, disturbed by both the robbing trench NB 835 to its S and the N-W trench (defined by cut 403) to the west. After last night's rain we were able to glimpse the cranium from a burial beneath context 429 (aka Monsieur de la Tete) that was exposed during the excavation of context 307 (by Maggie Burr and Dylan Rogers). We plan to investigate further the relationship of the aforementioned partially preserved butial to the trenches that cut it. When analyzing and synthesizing finds from the entire excavation area in the corridor N of the church nave, we realized that Deposit Contexts 429 and 437 appear to comprise one single continuous walking surface that extends throughout this corridor. Such a surface would allow access at the W end to Room 7 of Unit 2. Within this contet was found a single coin that appears to have been issued under Isabelle Villehardouin between 1299 and 1301. This coin (Coin 2014-198) thus provides the latest dating evidence available for Contexts 429, 437, and every context above them. Animal bones, 0.5 kg, saved on LOT 2014-44. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. late painted sgraffito, bowl. (saved to lot) .no overglaze; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late painted sgraffito, dish. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Roman19 bodysherds. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. roman1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. glaze painted, no overglaze, pitcher. 1 handle. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 55 frag(s) 0.6 kg. (11% saved) fineware. | |
| 646 frag(s) 3.95 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 74 frag(s) 0.45 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear yellowish brown tooled-in fold, bs, 1; shell, 2; glass clear blue, rim, 1; iron lumps, 2; bone, 2; glass clear green, rim, 3, bs, 4; glass clear olive green, bs, 1; Glass kiln liner, 1; iron nail, 3; glass clear colorless, rim, 1, bs, 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 13th/early 14th century | |
| Grid: | 128.2-125.05E, 1075.8-1077.2N | |
| XMin: | 125.05 | |
| XMax: | 128.2 | |
| YMin: | 1075.8 | |
| YMax: | 1077.2 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.89-84.96m. | |
| References: | Images (5) Coin: 2014 198 |
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