| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 101 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context Type: | Deposit | |
| Title: | Soft fill of erosion in clay surface N of U2 Rm F | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 101 | |
| Date: | 2014/04/21 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2014-005 | |
| Stratum: | 5% bone, Ceramic (pottery), pebbles (coarse) and cobbles. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | We opened this context to expolore a soft lens of black earth that seemed to be set into the clay surface exposed in the removal of 82. Some bone was removed, as well as a coin and iron nail. As the lens is removed it exposes a surface that is, contrary to expectation, lower than the clay surface exposed by the excavation of 82. The dirt removed is clayey silt, and it is bound on its edge by the harder clay of the surface. The deposit extends much further than we originally expected. As we excavate we come down on a layer of stone that appears to be tumble 0.31m from the southern limit of the deposit. There seems to be a separate context, characterized by an absence of rubble. It is clear at this point that what we called the soft lens is actually a large deposit of silty dirt and that thwat at first appeared to be rubble are the remains of a partially robbed out wall. The southern edge that was earelier identified, turns out to be mistaken; this deposit runs all the way to the southern scarp. There does, still, seem to be a different context under this deposit running 1.09m in from the south scarp. North of 1.08m seems to be southern side of the top of a EW wall. In our search for the northern limit, we excavate all the way to the northern scarp. The surface south of this 1.00m point was excavated to about 0.10m lower than the stones to the north. A stone at the SW corner of the pit by STR 11 turned out to be a fragment of an unfluted column, broken on its two ends and down its length. Excavation was stopped when all of the soft dirt was removed, leaving only two parches as the floor above and exposing what seems to be the sides of a lens, two walls as well as rubble fill. We close the context so that we can move on to removing the earlier floor above. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. preclassical2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .combed; Fineware. Frankish16 bodysherds. ; Fineware. maiolica, pitcher. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .late painted sgraffito; Fineware. 12th9 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed, bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .late; Fineware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .very glossy green glaze; Fineware. maiolica (saved to lot) .green painted; Coarseware. interior glaze, jar. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .white flaring rim glossy glaze; Fineware. bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .glazed painted; Fineware. archaic sgrafitto padana, dish. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval3 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 43 frag(s) 0.28 kg. (30% saved) fineware. | |
| 233 frag(s) 1.58 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 25 frag(s) 0.24 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron, nail, square shank, complete, 0.058, 1; carbon, 1 | |
| Period: | Turkish I (1458-1680 AD) | |
| Grid: | 111.41-110.11E, 1076.95-1079.98N | |
| XMin: | 110.11 | |
| XMax: | 111.41 | |
| YMin: | 1076.95 | |
| YMax: | 1079.98 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.03-86.18m. | |
| References: | Images (4) Coin: 2014 24 |
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