Corinth Basket NB980 B61 P134

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		NB980 B61 P134
Area:		Panaghia north
Category:		Basket/zembil
Notebook:		980
Context:		61
Page:		134
Date:		2006/06/09
Stratum:		light brownish brown, very soft, 5-10% fine-coarse pebbles, moderately sorted fine sand
Notes:		B61 is for the removal of the tile area in the trench's SW corner (which had been partially covered by B60's block). The earth here is noticeably softer than that in the remainder of the W portion of the trench. The tile seems to be floating in the shallow patch of softer earth with the harder surrounding earth running below it. Curiously, a modern thumb tack head was apparently found within the tile. This area turned out to be a bit different than expected. The soft earth, with large tile fragments, continues down below pipe level in a sort of pit with large vertical tile frags at its sides (several vertical tiles deep on the W side). Tiles also lay horizontally at this feature's floor nd slope downward to the N. This subsidence may be related to the same sinking action that resulted in the sinking and damage to the middle stretch of the water pipe (B48). An architectural block (originally visible after B48) that appears to have been cut down forms a boundary between the pipe trench and the tile area to the W. It is unclear as to whethre this block should be associated with the tile area. An exact cut between the earth of the tile area and that of the pipe cut could not be found, though the tile area is somewhat softer. The extremely close proximity of the well-preserved pipe to the tile area suggests strongly that the pipe is the later feature. B61's earth is being sieved. The tile feature is aligned and may be associated with the plastered water channel heading N from Trench 978. The position of the tiles, most of which are roof tiles, seems too orderly for pit fill. The tile feature may be an access point for water channel maintenance. The tile/stone feature in the trench's SW corner, roughly aligned with the tile feature, may also be related; as the area appears now, the 2 features are separated only by the pipe trench, and were conceivably once united. The small block on the E edge of B42, with a length of .52 m., would make a near perfect fit between the Wmost stone of the tile/stone feature and the Emost tile of the tile feature. Plaster bonds some of the tiles.
Context Pottery:		Cooking ware. griddle 1; Fineware. pre-Roman 25; Cooking ware. beaker base 1 rim 1
Pottery Summary:		23 frag(s) 0.11 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		32 frag(s) 0.8 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		17 frag(s) 0.18 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		plaster, painted red 1, purple 1 (saved to lot); lamp type 16 shoulder 1 red painted shoulder 3; tile Corinthian pan side rim 1 front flange 2 front right corner 1; glass, ring with blue/white swirl 1 similar to MF4251 (saved to lot); clear green glass bottle bs 1, glass waster green 1; tile Corinthian pan 1, back of flange, pinkish fabric; bone unid 3; tile Corinthian combination cover tile complete 1, developed archaic system; iron, nail with rectangular shank, bent shank 1, strip 1 L. .045, W. .01
Period:		Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Chronology:		Early Roman 1 c. A.C.
Grid:		422.1-421.3E, 977.4-978.25N
XMin:		421.3
XMax:		422.1
YMin:		977.4
YMax:		978.25
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		90.8-91.43m.
References:		Image: bw 2006 015 23a