| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 647 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Hard packed fill in the W of Room 9 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1109 | |
| Context: | 647 | |
| Date: | 2015/05/04 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2015-009 | |
| Stratum: | Pebbly 25%, with small sherds and small stones; a few medium subrounded tabular pebbles, but mostly fine, sub-rounded sphereical pebbles | |
| Description: | The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy clay. | |
| Notes: | Context 647 is a large hard packed fill of reddish brown sandy clay that sits above a large reddish clay level that changes elevation. Three coins, 51 = Louis VIII or IX 1223-1245/50; 53 = St. Martin of Tours (13th cent.), a piece of glass, and a small metal loop, perhaps a shoelace eye let, were found via sieve in this fill. It borders the ashy fill of 652, sharply borders 651 and is adjacent to a robbing trench, single deposit. Coins from sieve: Coin 49, Coin 51, Coin 53; coin 49 not a coin Photo: 521 3/06/2015 (L. Kennedy, R. Valente) Animal bones: sheep/goat, bird, murex, oyster, lampet, some with cutmarks and calcination, 0.21 kg, all thrown. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. matt painted, bowl. 6 rims. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), plate. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Plainware. bowl. 12 rims. 13 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .complete profile; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matt painted, pitcher. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. cooking pot with combed and pressed decoration1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matt painted, trefoil mouth pitcher. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Veneto, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 43 frag(s) 0.28 kg. (26% saved) fineware. | |
| 418 frag(s) 2.05 kg. (16% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 101 frag(s) 0.55 kg. (1% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron circular link; shell 3; glass clear colorles 10 bs, blue bs 3, olive green bs 1, trail on bs 1, blue green handle 1; iron nail square shaft complete 1, head and shaft 1, pieces 5; bronze buckle circular (Diam. 0.015) as MF-7959 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | early 14th cent. | |
| Grid: | 130.35-127.45E, 1081.05-1084.5N | |
| XMin: | 127.45 | |
| XMax: | 130.35 | |
| YMin: | 1081.05 | |
| YMax: | 1084.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.81-84.93m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2015 0521 Coin: 2015 49 Coin: 2015 51 Coin: 2015 53 |
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