| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 157 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context Type: | structure | |
| Title: | W Wall of Room 8 (Wall 13 NB 877) | |
| Category: | Structure | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 157 | |
| Date: | 2014/04/24 | |
| Description: | Structure materials: Limestone, tile. Material size: Stone: 019x0.17x0.17 Tile: 0.13x0.11x0.03. Material finish: Roughly hewn. Material construction: Random coursed. Material bonding: Mud plaster. | |
| Notes: | Wall Context 157 (NB 864 Wall 12, and NB 877 Wall 13) is the W wall of Room 8, Unit II. Associated walls are: Wall Context 154 (NB 877 and 845 Wall 14), the N wall of the room; Wall Context 155 (NB 877 and 845 Wall 18), the E wall of the room; and Wall Context 156 (NB 877 and 845 Wall 16), the S wall of the room. The N end of Wall Context 157 is destroyed by Pit 95-2 (well), so its intersection with Wall Context 154 is unclear. At the S, the bond with Wall Context 156 is unclear, but a preserved boulder on the upper remaining portion of this wall may suggest a bonding join. Lower, however, it looks abutting, but further cleaning of this area is needed. Wall Context 157 was initially discovered in the excavation of Room 7 in NB 864 B28 (p. 43-44). Here they suggest that the robbing trench through much of the central portion of the wall was refilled in the 18th c. The robbers did not reach the bottom of the wall, which extends below the excavated surface throughout the trench. A an area of harder soil abutted by the floor excavated in Context 168 lined the E face of this wall, and may represent the foundation of a bench (Context 175). The subsurface of Context 140 (NB 877 and 845 "Frankish floor") excavated in Context 153, along with Context 140 itself seem to have met this wall. The bottom of this wall has not been reached. We also could not discern a foundation trench, although we were on approximately the same level that it was detected along the W face of Wall Context 155 on the E side of the room. The soil lining the wall beneath the bench (Context 175) seemed similar to that immediately to the E in texture, color and inclusions. See notes for Context 175. This wall must be earlier than the date of the composition of the bench, dated to the Late 13th c. by pottery. | |
| Grid: | 124.63-122.55E, 1078.37-1085.05N | |
| XMin: | 122.55 | |
| XMax: | 124.63 | |
| YMin: | 1078.37 | |
| YMax: | 1085.05 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.45m. |
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