| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 155 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context Type: | structure | |
| Title: | E Wall of Room 8 (Wall 18 NB 877, 845) | |
| Category: | Structure | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 155 | |
| Date: | 2014/04/24 | |
| Description: | Structure materials: Limestone, conglomerate. Material size: Stone: 0.32x0.25x0.12 (avg.). Material finish: Roughly hewn. Material construction: Random coursed. Material bonding: Mud plaster;. | |
| Notes: | Wall Context 155 is the E wall of Room 8, Unit II. Associated walls are: the N wall, Wall Context 154 (NB 877 and 845 Wall 14); a second (earlier?) N wall with which it may bond, Wall Context 166 (NB 845 Wall 19); the S wall, with which it may also bond, Wall Context 156 (NB 877 and 845 Wall 16); and the W wall, Wall Context 157 (NB 864 Wall 12 and NB 845 Wall 13). Wall Context 155 is extensively discussed in NB 845. It was initially discovered under destruction debris (NB 845 B167). It is suggested in this notebook to have 2 phases minimally, an early phase in the pre-Frankish period, and a later phase in the Frankish period (NB 845, p. 62-64). This interpretation is based on a possible continuation of a Frankish floor over the N portion of the wall (see explanation NB 845 B172; NB 877 B149 and drawing p.174). Below this floor the extent of the robbing trench indicates that the wall was continuous from Wall Context 156 to Wall Context 154/166. An even earlier wall on this same orientation is proposed for a line of stones found below NB 845 B173, though we have interpreted them as a continuation of Wall Context 155. An additional possibility was proposed by Panagiotis Stamatis that these large, level stones may be a threshhold, though this is not clearly indicated. During the final phase of this wall in the Frankish period, perhaps in the late 13th c. CE, the excavators of 1995 NB 845 suggest that an arched opening was made in this wall, based on the discovery of 3-6 voussoirs and "an arcing marble block" in the vicinity of the wall and the robbing trench (NB 877 147). A patch of cement is noted in NB 845 B172 in the area of the N preserved stub of the wall (to the S of this), which they suggest is at the bottom of the wall trench. It is still in situ over the remaining section of the wall, but does not seem to be at the bottom of the wall trench, and probably bonds a tile course to a now missing stone course above. The bond with the S wall (Wall Context 156, NB 845 Wall 16) was investigated in NB 845 B176 (p. 46), but the results were inconclusive. A large, squared boulder in the lower levels of this wall appeared to us to bond the walls. At the N, the majority of this wall is missing due to robbing, but it also seems to bond with Wall Context 166. The destruction of the wall in this area, however, makes it uncertain. Both the "Frankish floor" (NB 877 and 845, see NB 845 p. 53) excavated in Context 140 and the earlier surface excavated in Context 168 seem to have met the wall. Beneath Context 168 and Context 153 to the N (a subsurface) sections of a probable foundation trench were discovered along the W face of the wall in sections where the wall is not robbed out, excavated in Contexts 176 (N) and 177 (S). For a number of reasons, we stopped excavating these before reaching the bottom of the wall (see notes for 176 and 177). The fill of this possible foundation trench dates to late 13th-early 14th c. based on pottery. | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 13th-early 14th c. | |
| Grid: | 128.65-126.5E, 1079.23-1086.27N | |
| XMin: | 126.5 | |
| XMax: | 128.65 | |
| YMin: | 1079.23 | |
| YMax: | 1086.27 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.11m. |
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