Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 194

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 194
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Trampled fill below floor, Room 7
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1108
Context:		194
Date:		2014/05/05
Lot:		Lot 2014-028
Stratum:		5% small, whitish, sub-rounded spherical chalky stones, ceramic small pieces of iron and class, ash, tile
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish grey. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty clay.
Notes:		As no floor associated with the construction phase of wall context 59 and 157, that form the boundaries of room 7, had yet been identified, we began excavating the deposits in the space. Deposit 194, a soft lens of what appeared to be uniform fill covering the surface of the room, was removed. Five to six cm of this fill were removed, revealing a lower surface characterized by what appeared to be several small lenses of fill (ash lens 197, fill 199 and fill 201). Context 197 appeared to partially overlap fill 199. Also revealed by the removal of context 194 was a hard clayey fill extending 3 meters N from the southern wall. This fill was later given context number 202. The room was sectioned at the midpoint of the southern wall (120.23, 1077.42; 123.99, 1078.04) in order to allow an exploration of the relationship between the surfaces in room 7 and the southern wall, without venturing into the southern corridor, as it was noted that fill context 197 appeared to continue into it.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 rim. 13 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .brundisiana; Fineware. plain glazed maiolica, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. ; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .outurned rim; Fineware. archaic maiolica, slipped (1270-1325), pitcher. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre roman9 bodysherds. ; Fineware. veneto ware, bowl. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre medieval4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. pre late frankish128 bodysherds. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), bowl. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), plate. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. 3 handles. 31 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. archaic maiolica, slipped (1270-1325), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		206 frag(s) 1.07 kg. (94% saved) fineware.
		930 frag(s) 6.9 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		136 frag(s) 0.75 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass clear colorless, beaker, bs 1, rim 4, base 1; glass clear blue, bs 1; iron, nail square shank, 10; glass clear colorless, prunted beaker, bs 5, base 4; glass clear blueish green, beaker with blue trail on rim as MF 1995-15, rim 1, bs 9, base 4; bone, 1; iron, key, 1, inventoried as MF 2014-18; shell, 4; iron, sheet 1, lump, 4; glass clear greenish blue, rim 2, bs 6, tubular ring foot (?), 1; glass clear colorless, bs 10, base 1; bronze, wire, 2, sheet, 1; iron, strip, 2
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		Early-Mid 14th century
Grid:		123.95-119.15E, 1077.8-1086.45N
XMin:		119.15
XMax:		123.95
YMin:		1077.8
YMax:		1086.45
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.79-84.84m.
References:		Object: MF 2014 18