| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 322 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Title: | Foundation Trench of East Wall of 2R | |
| Notebook: | 1110 | |
| Context: | 322 | |
| Date: | 2016/04/11 | |
| Description: | The context shape in plan is rectangular. The top break of the cut is sharp. The sides of the cut are vertical. The break at the base of the cut is sharp. The base of the cut is vertical sides and flat base. Truncation: original form - untruncated. | |
| Notes: | Originally, Danielle suggested that this context is merely the foundation trench for the lowest course of stones visible in the east wall, not the entire foundation trench, if the bottom of it had been reached. She thinks that the east pier block and the stones for the east wall were laid down all the way, then the rubble fill was dumped beside the east wall when the builders realized that the east wall and the pier block weren't resting on solid ground because of an earlier structure below the stoa. She thinks this stone fill then slid south such that the builders had to cut them to build the foundation trench 325-- hence the stones' appearance in its sides. The east foundation trench must go deeper-- we can see it on the other side in room 1r. Guy thinks that the south crosswall of room 1r is a later addition, whereas in 2r it may be original, as it seems solid. 4/19: while observing the area of 431 excavated this morning, we noticed that the east pier block is not in fact resting on rubble, but on the same fill as that which constitutes 431. so guy and danielle's original theory about the construction of the east trench is incorrect and needs revised, at least in that the east pier block was not built on unstable ground and stabilized with a rubble fill. | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | 323 to 1st q. of 3rd cent BC; filled by original wall of stoa | |
| Grid: | 350.7-348.6E, 1085.9-1090.4N | |
| XMin: | 348.6 | |
| XMax: | 350.7 | |
| YMin: | 1085.9 | |
| YMax: | 1090.4 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 80.1-81.11m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2016 0115 |
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