Corinth Basket: NB81 B21 P207
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   NB81 B21 P207
Area:   Korakou
Title:   Trench I, G VII
Category:   Basket/zembil
Notebook:   81
Context:   21
Page:   207
Date:   1915/05/08
Stratum:   Trench I, G VII
Notes:   G VII From 1.75-1.90 there is brown earth and very little pottery. At 1.90 is a whitish strosis like clay ca. 0.02 thick. Below this is red earth again with a considerable amount of carbonized vegetable matter (doesn’t look like ashes).
Not a great many fragments. They seem to be Urfirnis.
[p. 348]
G VII 1.75-2.05
Plain black Urfirnis still persists thin black or black brown paint 15 to 20 sherds (5 belong together and join "wash" type)
Plain red Urfirnis total 8 sherds
Plain buff sherds. Ca. 15. A few are thin and highly polished. Buff yellow buff and green buff.
Coarse sherds A fair number from cooking pots etc. 25 sherds
Obsidian 1 piece
[MN: 63 / 159]
[NB 85, p. 58, CWB:]
G VII 1.75-2.05
Urfirnis Red surfaced like preceding 8 sherds
Black surfaced 16 sherds
Black brown wash 2 sherds. One is part of a wide bowl (in 5 pieces) with
[p. 59]
an almost transparent brownish varnish
There are 15 plain buff sherds 3 or 4 well polished. 1 especially is highly burnished
Also 25 coarse sherds chiefly unpainted red.
Only two bottoms in this tray, one flat and one small (buff plain) one is raised [drawing of raised base]
Period:   Early Helladic
Site:   Korakou
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   -2.05--1.75m.