Corinth Basket NB983 B29 P68

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		NB983 B29 P68
Area:		Panaghia north
Category:		Basket/zembil
Notebook:		983
Context:		29
Page:		68
Date:		2006/06/13
Lot:		Lot 2006-022
Stratum:		Foundation trench of W215
Notes:		The matrix of this basket is dark reddish brown sandy silt, compact to loose, with 2-5% pebble inclusions. B29 is a possible foundation trench for W215 that was first identified in the last pass of B17, where a softer darker soil seemed to extend from W215 to ca. 0.4m to the N and then changed into a harder lighter reddish brown. As excavation proceeds deeper it is evident that this is a foundation trench. At certain points the soil is so loose that is removed simply by brushing. This is explained by the big gaps in the stones of W215 which allow the soil to slip through and create air pockets. The basket was ended because it was too narrow to proceed any deeper. The soil was dry sieved.
Context Pottery:		Cooking ware. small roundm pitcher handle 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Roman ca 30 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ESB bowl with outturned rim, rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora as Agora 5 G199 handle 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. small red slip pitcher rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. roundm pitcher rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. thornware bs 2 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. cooking pot as C1982-4, rim 1, handle 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ESB form 70 rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. early-Roman stew pot rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Chandarli form 2 base 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. trefoilm pitcher rim 3 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ESB plate unid bs 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stew pot see Hesp 94 #37 rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Chandarli unid bs 4 (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		73 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		396 frag(s) 7.5 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		164 frag(s) 1.46 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		venus 1 (saved to lot); iron square shank, 1, length 0.024 m (saved to lot); antefix 1 (saved to lot); cardia 1 (saved to lot); mandible canis 1 (saved to lot); phalanges 5 (saved to lot); iron lump 1 (saved to lot); ostrea 3 (saved to lot); molar ovis 1 (saved to lot); metatarsus gallus 1 (saved to lot); ribs ca 30 (saved to lot); canine sus 3 (saved to lot); ostrea pierced 3 (saved to lot); glass blue clear base 3 (saved to lot); lamp type 27 ovolo shoulder 1 (saved to lot); murex 4 (saved to lot); lima 2 (saved to lot); bone misc ca 60 (saved to lot); glass clear bs 4 (saved to lot); mandible sus 1 (saved to lot); glass clear green handle as MF3727, 1 (saved to lot); bone bird 4 (saved to lot); glass colorless clear bs 3 (saved to lot); incisor ovis 1 (saved to lot); glass clear vertical rim thickened out, 1, diam. 0.08 m (saved to lot); glass clear yellow-green bs 1 (saved to lot); bronze lumps 2 (saved to lot); iron strip perforated, 1 (saved to lot); lamp type 27, nozzle 1, handle 1 (saved to lot); mandible sus 1 (saved to lot); glass clear blue base from thumb-indented cup as Corinth XII 645, 1, diam. 0.04 m (saved to lot); glass clear base from thumb-indented cup as Corinth XII 645, 1, diam. 0.035 m (saved to lot); glass clear greenish base from thumb-indented cup as Corinth XII 645, 1, diam. 0.04 m (saved to lot); gaedaropus 2 (saved to lot)
Period:		Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD)
Grid:		407.75-406E, 969.1-969.6N
XMin:		406
XMax:		407.75
YMin:		969.1
YMax:		969.6
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		90.55-91.02m.
References:		Coin: 2006 109 Notebook Page: NB 983, spread 39 (pp. 68 - 69)