Corinth Basket New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field, context 140

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field, context 140
Area:		New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field
Title:		Room 10 - Levelling Fill
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1111
Context:		140
Date:		2016/06/16
Stratum:		Less than 1% pottery and tile; circa 5% very small rocks; few inclusions otherwise.
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light greyish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is well sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		After the cleaning operation (138), we began Context 140 covering the entirety of Room 10 (except the pit, 137). Very little pottery throughout and only four pieces of glass and a small piece of metal were collected. There were perhaps some small patches of reddish soil in the NW and SW area of the room. These excavations uncovered a lower course (or prior wall?) of both 86 and 127, only visible in the south of the former and in the north, tapering to the south, of the latter. Sample measurements of these stones from 86: 0.36 L, extending 0.16 from upper courses of wall; 0.27 L, 0.18 from upper courses. Sample measurements of stones in 127: 0.39 L, 0.14 from upper course (this is the north-most stone); 0.46 L, 0.19 from upper course. There was also a large amount of medium-sized stones (e.g. 0.26 x 0.12 x n/a) uncovered, concentrated in the east and extending NW toward the pit-- tumble from wall collapse? Some large tile fragments came up at roughly the same level as the rocks. We collected the biggest one (0.30 x 0.19 x 0.03). Thanasis detected a change in the soil to a higher clay content, so we changed contexts. 21/6/16 TB and EJ: Glass stem from this context is similar in size, style, and color to glass stems collected from contexts 79, 106, and 128. NA-34: burned stone
Context Pottery:		Fineware. light on dark II, slip painted (1160-1200), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. measles, slipped slip painted sgraffito (1140-1160), bowl. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. basin. 4 rims. 2 handles. (saved to lot) .Joining context 152; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .Red matte painted decoration; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. stamnos, triangular rim1 rim. (saved to lot) .black matte painted
Pottery Summary:		11 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (45% saved) fineware.
		112 frag(s) 4.25 kg. (7% saved) coarseware.
		47 frag(s) 0.6 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		Glass clear light blue (very weathered) BS 2 (saved to lot); Metal strip (0.024 x 0.006 x 0.003m) (saved to lot); Glass clear blue Rim 1 (saved to lot); Glass clear blue Stem 1 (painted?) as MF 6539 and MF 267 (but MF 267 is slightly larger; see Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 711-723) (saved to lot)
Period:		Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:		3rd quarter of the 12th century
Grid:		-304.75--308.37E, 1491.53-1496.54N
XMin:		-308.37
XMax:		-304.75
YMin:		1491.53
YMax:		1496.54
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		58.05-58.21m.