| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 505 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Cut for foundation trench of wall 156 | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 505 | |
| Date: | 2014/06/13 | |
| Description: | The context shape in plan is linear. 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 blunt point. Truncation: This cut is truncated by our artificial string line - the eastern boundary of our trench. It is also truncated by 408, the E-W pit that was cut against the wall's side.. | |
| Notes: | This is the foundation trench cut for wall 156. We dug this in order to get dating material for wall 156. Having dug it, it appears that wall 156 is more substantial than we thought. Further, the (previously christened) stub wall 436 is also more substantial, with the eastern half being at least 3 course and the western half bring only one course. Therefore, we split this wall and kept the 1-course western half as 436 and the 3-course eastern half as 510 (see notes, context 510) Wall 156 is also at least 3 courses at the center where it was robbed out. Perhaps there are two iterations of this wall? This cut was found inside the pit cut by 408 and it continues to the W on Wall 436, so it apears that pit cut 408 probably scalloped the top of this foundation cut. The cut's bottom is not at consistent levels, but rather is 10 cm deeper at its eastern end, before it hits our arbitrary string line (the eastern boundary of this trench). This might be the foundation trench cut if the eastern part of wall 156 had an earlier phase, concurrent with wall 155) that we dug through without realizing it. Alternatively, the builders of wall 156 might have created a deeper cut in the east when they were digging the foundation trench when they hit the softer dirt of that earlier foundation trench. Further, 156 and 510 are not yet floating (with their bottom boundary revealed), so this cut might represent a lens in a foundation trench that has not yet been fully excavated. Scraping has sgugested the presence fo a second lens of fill. | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | mid-late 13th century | |
| Grid: | 129.03-123.35E, 1077.4-1078.39N | |
| XMin: | 123.35 | |
| XMax: | 129.03 | |
| YMin: | 1077.4 | |
| YMax: | 1078.39 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.55-84.77m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2014 0715 Image: digital 2014 0716 |
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