Corinth Basket: NB978 B66 P145
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   NB978 B66 P145
Area:   Panaghia north
Category:   Basket/zembil
Notebook:   978
Context:   66
Page:   145
Date:   2006/05/18
Lot:   Lot 2006-010
Stratum:   Cistern fill.
Notes:   B 66 ia a deposit of darker blackish earth that appears to be cut into the matrix of reddish soil that is very similar to B65, and llikely the same deposit. The darker soil has a high concentration of large pottery shards. It has been noted that the matrix and the composition of B66 is very similar to some baskets dug in the W part of the cistern in the previous year (NB 975 B **). The entire deposit of B66 is being reserved for water sieving. The deposit of B66 ended on the reddish layer with roof tiles (bottom of B65).
Context Pottery:   Coarseware. shallow lekane rim 3 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Acrocorinth kantharos handle 2 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Rhodian amph? toe 1, bs 5 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. olpe handle 1, rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. lid handle 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stew pot with flange for lid rim 2 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. deep lekane rim 4 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. unid kantharos base 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. chytra rim 1, handle 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stew pot with out-turned rim rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. pitcher rim 1, bs 2 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. open vessel bs 15 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. grey ware rim 1, bs 2 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. mortar handle 1 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Corinthian B amph rim 1, bs 18 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pyxis lid 2, 1 join B62 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. one-piece kantharos rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. mould made bowl bs 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. krater rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. echinus bowl cp 1, rim 10, base 1, bs 5 (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:   74 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
    147 frag(s) 7.9 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
    68 frag(s) 0.58 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   bone unid 14 (saved to lot); bronze lump 1 (saved to lot); conical loom-weight 1 (saved to lot); moulded cover tile frgt. 1(W. 0.1) (saved to lot); roof tile frgts. 36 (W. 9.6); Laconian cover tile frgt. 1 (W.0.2) (saved to lot); bos long bone 1, humerus dystal 1 (saved to lot); cranium unid 3 (saved to lot); shell chlamys 1 (saved to lot); miniature type IV lamp, intact, unglazed, H. 0.016, diam. Base 0.028, diam. Fill hole 0.021 as KL145 (saved to lot)
Period:   Hellenistic
Chronology:   late 3rd cent to early 2nd cent BC
Grid:   420.2-419.2E, 962.2-962.75N
XMin:   419.2
XMax:   420.2
YMin:   962.2
YMax:   962.75
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   90.49-90.77m.
References:   Object: MF 2006 20
Object: MF 2006 21
Notebook Page: NB 978, spread 78 (pp. 145 - 146)