| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 525 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Title: | Layer of Cobbles in W on Either Side of Wall | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1110 | |
| Context: | 525 | |
| Date: | 2016/05/12 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2016-041 | |
| Stratum: | rounded to angular spherical to tabular medium to coarse pebbles and cobbles, mudbrick, shell, chopped up bedrock, several stones with flat surfaces that appear to be worked (.20 x .20 x .10m) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | after removal of 524 we continue to think that the cobbles might be a collapsed wall. In particular, three stones fitted together in the NW area of the deposit appear anthropogenic, and part of a linear arrangement of stones running north to south. The stones are visible poking through the lower portion of soil left for karkanas, running towards the NE corner of 1R. Unfortunately however the cobbles run under the soil left for karkanas, so we cannot determine their full extent. Guy disagrees with our interpretation, however, and interprets the cobbles as a courtyard or workspace associated with the surfaces (under 520 and under 521) and distrubed by bioturbation (hence now very uneven). The rocks he thinks are too small for a wall. We think that the rocks are too jagged for a work surface, but guy thinks that smooth stones would have been too difficult to acquire (they are not available locally), so the builders of the courtyard would have settled for what was readily available. After removal of some of the cobbles, we started to find chunks of mudbrick, which suggest that this may indeed be a collapsed wall. We will keep removing cobbles until we can determine an orientation for the mudbrick. We decided to excavate the cobbles not as a single context, but as the cobbles around what we think may be the wall, and the wall itself. Quite a bit of mudbrick was found last session in the fill of foundation trench 349 (for the north wall of 2R) and in the fill of the foundation trench for 459 (cut 322), the latter of which was undisturbed since the construction of the stoa. Perhaps this mudbrick derives from the same source (upper courses of our wall?) as the mudbrick found amidst the cobbles. We found what much of the same vessel crushed by a large stone, against the edge of the wall in the NW. this may be a further indication that this is a wall, as vessels tend to be broken against the sides of collapsed walls (collapse of shelving). Beneath the portion of cobbles that we think are collapsed lay a surface. At first we thought that this surface might abut the wall, but according to panos it runs under (or is cut by) the wall and is the same as the surface that lay under 521. further excavation is necessary to clarify the relationship between the surface and the wall. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. LN Black-Burnished, fruitstand. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .bowl; Fineware. EH black slipped, bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .with incurving rim; Fineware. EH red slipped9 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN MP1 rim. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Grey Ware1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LN Black-Burnished1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. EH coarse (saved to lot) .with mark on base; Fineware. EH I handle1 rim. (saved to lot) .with incised herring bone | |
| Pottery Summary: | 24 frag(s) 0.3 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 15 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | chert red 1 (saved to lot); stone tool 1 (saved to lot); mudbrick 3 (saved to lot); shell land 76 (saved to lot); bone 15 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Early Helladic | |
| Chronology: | EH II | |
| Grid: | 353-340.45E, 1088.25-1089.9N | |
| XMin: | 340.45 | |
| XMax: | 353 | |
| YMin: | 1088.25 | |
| YMax: | 1089.9 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 80.79-81.02m. | |
| References: | Images (8) Object: C 2016 16 |
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