Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 696

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 696
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Deposit over surface E. of room 9
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		696
Date:		2015/05/07
Lot:		Lot 2015-006
Stratum:		25% inclusions with several large bones, numerous fine pebbles, a couple of coarse spherical sub-rounded pebbles
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the S. The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey sand.
Notes:		Coin 100 (sieve) - French, early to mid 13th century Coin 106: E. 130.28; N. 1085.40; H. 84.88, Villehardouin CORINTVM This context was dug over two fays (7/5 & 8/5). It was a large irregularly shaped dump of fill over a pebbly surface that is in the N. and S. of the room. The fill may be a leveling fill when the purpose of the space changed. Context 696 is cut by the big pit from the 1990s. 3/06/2015 (L. Kennedy, R. Valente) Animal bones all lotted with pottery, 4 kg, not examined.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), lamp. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted, bowl. 5 rims. 16 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .no overglaze; Fineware. late painted sgraffito, bowl. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped painted IV, bowl. 8 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. vertical folded3 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), plate. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. 12th century8 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 complete profile. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late painted sgraffito, plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300)14 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slip and glaze painted, bowl. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		175 frag(s) 1.37 kg. (99% saved) fineware.
		425 frag(s) 4.39 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		105 frag(s) 0.61 kg. (3% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron nail square shaft with head 6, square shaft 9, heads only 5,; bronze wire (L. 0.056, as MF-4567); iron point (L. 0.035) (possibly arrow head as MF-2856, but broken); glass clear colorless bs 3, purple bs 1; iron ring (outer Diam. 0.035, inner Diam. 0.018) as MF-7087; bronze nail (L. 0.033); bronze strip (L. 0.038)
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		4th quarter of the 13th century
Grid:		131.68-126.88E, 1081-1086.73N
XMin:		126.88
XMax:		131.68
YMin:		1081
YMax:		1086.73
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.8-84.92m.
References:		Image: digital 2015 0599 Image: digital 2015 0600 Coin: 2015 100 Coin: 2015 106