Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 365

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 365
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Post hole in corridor
Notebook:		1108
Context:		365
Date:		2014/05/21
Description:		The context shape in plan is circular. The top break of the cut is sharp. The sides of the cut are vertical. The break at the base of the cut is sharp. The base of the cut is tapered rounded point.
Notes:		Cut context 365 appears to be the cut for a post hole associated in some way with wall 20, the N wall of the churhc. The post hole is very nearly circular, with flat, vertical walls, and was filled with a matrix of red sandy 'humus' with almost no inclusions (perhaps the remains of the decayed post). The cut is relatively deep, around 30cm, so it appears that the post must have been expected to bear weight. One suggestion is that the post cut described here and the neighboring one (360), were cut to hold scaffoling of some sort, perhaps for repairs to the chuch. The two cuts for post holes further W in the corridor, 331 and 337, are much shallower and were exposed with a fill whose relationship with the unexcavated surface cut contexts 360 and 365 are cut into is as yet not understood. The post holes could, of course, also have been cut to be supports for a sloping roof, although the surface they were cut into, as well as fill context 343, above, appeared to us to have been too rough to have indicated an 'indoor' space.
Grid:		127.49-127.23E, 1076.83-1077.5N
XMin:		127.23
XMax:		127.49
YMin:		1076.83
YMax:		1077.5
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.64-84.91m.
References:		Image: digital 2014 0513