| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 380 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context Type: | Deposit | |
| Title: | Deposit above floor east of well | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1110 | |
| Context: | 380 | |
| Date: | 2016/04/14 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2016-019 | |
| Stratum: | light yellowish brown silty sand; inclusions of small rocks, charcoal, and ceramic | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is well sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | Coins in this context: 69: 337.95, 1089.02, 81.56 73, 75, 76, 77: sieve We open this context to take down the fill east of the well that overlays the surface exposed during the excavation of the foundation trench for the Late Wall (Context 369). Initially it seemed that that the fill in the southern half of the area was distinct from the northern half, and so we were going to take them in separate contexts; as we excavate, however, it becomes apparent that it is the same fill. The soil is light yellow/orange brown silty sand and relatively compact, except for the southern portion closest to the Robbing Trench, which is looser. There are inclusiosn of bone, metal, and marble chunks; eventually this fill comes to be characterized by an abundance of charcoal and small sherds. There are also some sporadic patches of clay. Eventually we expose a floor surface that extends through the whole context, except at the southwest and northern edges. The absence of the surface in the SW is likely due to the presence of several very large roots in this area. In addition, there are two circular depressions (see Contexts 405, 406) in the central portion of the context, on an axis roughly parallel to the front of the Stoa; they are 0.15-17 m in diameter and 0.18 apart. Thanasis suggests they are for wood (i.e., postholes?). We close and decide to continue to excavate this fill around to the area west of the well under a different context (387). | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. ESB ?1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. barbotine2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre roman125 bodysherds. ; Fineware. neolithic7 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. contamination; Fineware. thorn ware beaker3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 185 frag(s) 0.41 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 429 frag(s) 2.5 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 150 frag(s) 0.68 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron nail round shank fr, 1 (saved to lot); charcoal (3 large, 6 medium, rest small) fr, 93 (saved to lot); bronze sheet fr, 3 (saved to lot); iron slag, 2 (saved to lot); iron possibly cylindrical fr, 1 (saved to lot); bronze fr, 2 (saved to lot); iron lumps, 5 (saved to lot); bone fr, 20 (saved to lot); tile fr, 4 (saved to lot); obsidian primary flake, 1 (saved to lot); iron nailhead, 1 (saved to lot); pink marble revetment, 6 (saved to lot); iron nail shank fr, 2 (saved to lot); iron architectural spike (?), 1 (saved to lot); obsidian, 1 (saved to lot); gray and white marble revetment, 28 (saved to lot); rosso antico, 1 (saved to lot); painted red wall plaster, 3, hellenistic? (saved to lot); greyish stone tessera, 1 (saved to lot); red and white marble revetment, 4 (saved to lot); t.c. lamp Type XVI (cf. Corinth 4.2, nos. 198, 215) complete but for handle, 1 (inv as L-2016-1) (saved to lot); glass clear yellowish bs, 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | NPD | |
| Grid: | 338.9-336.1E, 1088.1-1091.5N | |
| XMin: | 336.1 | |
| XMax: | 338.9 | |
| YMin: | 1088.1 | |
| YMax: | 1091.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 81.4-81.66m. | |
| References: | Images (4) Object: L 2016 1 Coins (5) |
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