| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 497 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context Type: | cut | |
| Title: | Cut of Rectangular Pit in S of 1R | |
| Notebook: | 1110 | |
| Context: | 497 | |
| Date: | 2016/04/23 | |
| Description: | The context shape in plan is rectrangular. 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 flat. Truncation: by 316, 506, 509. | |
| Notes: | We have not finished excavating this cut (context 478 was artificially closed/finished, and the excavation of this deposit will be resumed in Session II). At the moment, we are treating it as a rectangular, but it may turn out to be a collection of multiple cut events which happened to form a rough rectangular at this level. This cut, which we think is a classical cellar like the ones of Buildings I and II under the west end of the stoa, cuts into bedrock on the south side and a series of thin surfaces on the north side. The floor is mostly cut out of bedrock, but part of it, which is soil, appears to be a prehistoric surface that runs under the edge of the cut to the north. Other interpretations of 497: dromos of a tholos or chamber tomb (insufficiently sloped, the floor is only roughly leveled); robbed out foundation trench for an earlier crosswall of the stoa (impossible because 497 is cut by the foundation trench), foundation trench of an earlier building, cister (but it is not waterproofed), grave (too big). | |
| Period: | No precise date (NPD) | |
| Chronology: | 5th century B.C. ? | |
| Grid: | 354.8-351.8E, 1086-1087.8N | |
| XMin: | 351.8 | |
| XMax: | 354.8 | |
| YMin: | 1086 | |
| YMax: | 1087.8 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 80.975-81.192m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2016 0364 |
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