| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 28 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context Type: | Deposit | |
| Title: | Construction Fill in NE Quadrant | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1109 | |
| Context: | 28 | |
| Date: | 2015/05/08 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2015-054 | |
| Stratum: | 90% small to large rocks, cement chunks and some tiles | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the S. The soil color is light greyish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | Coins: 2015-115, 2015-116 Photographs: 2015-1020 This context contains an unusually circular area on its W side, see photo, it contains more cement chunks than other areas which may explain its whiter color and looser nature. This context consists of a large level of rubble, tile, and cement chunks, in the center there is a patch of broken pan tiles lying glat roughly in the area of the well head. We discovered the top of the well just to the E of that tile area. It sounded a little hollow above. The fill within it had subsided to ca. 0.5 m below well head. On the E side along wall 18 there is an area of larger stones and soft darker soil. It is possible that it is fill in the robbing trench for this wall. We dug a small portion of it and stopped, although no cut is visible. This context is also revealing the same "floor" surface as in 24. Coin #133 was found at an elevation of 87.48, the same as the earlier coin. This same floor surface became clearly evident near the west boundary of 28, and so it was decided that it extended in all directions - 28 overlays this floor surface with a clear boundary. Near the west of 28 tiles and amphora sherds overlaid larger rocks as the elveling surface. Both were removed as part of 28. Coin #134 was found at an elevation of 81.46. Another compact surface, possibly a second leveling floor is revealed below the flooor at the bottom of context 28. This was found while continuting through 28, but will be explored after the first floor surface is revealed - the one 28 overlays. To be clear, 28 overlays one floor level, context _______, which overlays another distinctly floor-like survace. This was an overdigging mistake, immediately corrected. This overdigging is only approximately 10cm wide and 90cm long, at the largest and widest. It is in the NW section of 28. No material was pulled, thus contamination is very unlikely. The coins found all seem to be at the same elevation, and all near the western border of 28. Most of the rocks pulled for 28 on the SW portion were smaller than other parts of 28, averaging smaller than cobble sized at their largest. Coin #136 was unearthed from the sieve. The overdigging mistake turned out not to be a mistake, but there is an uneven floor of clayey yellowish soil over the whole area. We expanded on the West side to about 5cm beyond the N-S wall structure. At the supposed junction of the N-S and E-W walls there was an area of softer soil. North of the possible robbing trenches noted earlier were just patches of soft soil. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. Rom- ESB3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .1st and 2nd series; Fineware. Hellenistic, semiglazed bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Roman, coan amphora. 2 rims. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Hellenistic, casserole. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Rom- ESA2 rims. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Rom- ESA, conical bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .with west slope decoration, to be inventoried / inventory; Coarseware. Roman, basin. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .interior glaze; Cooking ware. Hellenistic, lid. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Hellenistic, moldmade bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .Figural; Fineware. Hellenistic, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .Triangular rim, west slope vegetal pattern; Fineware. Classical, oinochoe. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Archaic, oinochoe. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .miniature; Fineware. Hellenistic, saucer. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Geometric, skyphos. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Hellenistic, Cyma kantharos. 1 handle. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .running ivy; Fineware. Ionian, plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .grey sparkling fabric; Cooking ware. imported, stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .Hayes type 2, 2nd c. AD type; Coarseware. amphora. 1 complete profile. (saved to lot) .overfired lid; Coarseware. amphora stand. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Hellenistic, fish plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .bevelled; Fineware. Hellenistic, kantharos. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .cyma with concentric square; Fineware. prehistoric, jar. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Cypriot sigillata, plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .C 2015-15; Fineware. Hellenistic, moldmade bowl. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Archaic, pyxis. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .Conventionalizing; Fineware. Classical, oinochoe. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .rayed base; Coarseware. amphora. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .Corinthian B; Coarseware. Roman, interior glazed basin. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Blister ware, mug. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .2nd - 1st c. fabric; Coarseware. Hellenistic, amphora. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .Coan; Coarseware. Hellenistic, mushroom rimmed amphora. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Rom- Ital. sig., plate. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Roman, amphora. (saved to lot) .Dressel; Coarseware. lekane. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .sim to c1960-27; Coarseware. Agora M54, amphora. 2 rims. 1 handle. 36 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .pseudo-Coan with red painted dipinti | |
| Pottery Summary: | 380 frag(s) 5.1 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 628 frag(s) 16.88 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 276 frag(s) 0.84 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear, colorless, base, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear, blue, bs 1 (saved to lot); glass clear, blue, rim, 2 (saved to lot); Arc-Hell pithos with triangular rim 1, bs 1 (saved to lot); Lamp, Roman, base 2 (saved to lot); Lamp, type XVII, shoulder 1 (saved to lot); iron, sheet frag, 1 (saved to lot); Tile, Greek, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, nail frag, 1 (saved to lot); iron, chunks, 2 (saved to lot); bone unid 63 = 0.17kg (saved to lot); iron, nail, 1 (saved to lot); plaster, red pigment, 2 (saved to lot); Glass clear, colorless, bs 1 (saved to lot); glass clear, blue, rim 2 (saved to lot); TC Fig, quadruped, leg 1 (saved to lot); iron, unidentified, 1 (saved to lot); Burnt bone 2 (saved to lot); red chert 1 (saved to lot); charcoal, chunks, 12 (saved to lot); glass clear, colorless, bs, 7 (saved to lot); glass clear, blue, bs 3 (saved to lot); iron, nail heads, 4 (saved to lot); shell flesh eater 3 (saved to lot); Lamp, type 9/10?, shoulder 1 (saved to lot); iron, nailhead frag, 9 (saved to lot); Iron nail head 1 (saved to lot); Shell 5 (saved to lot); shell venus 2 (saved to lot); Perirrhanterion rim, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, nailhead, 1 (saved to lot); Lamp, Type 4, overfired, shoulder 2 (saved to lot); Glass, clear, colorless bluish, bowl with thickened rim and straight wall as Jalame no. 6, rim 1 (saved to lot); Lamp, Type 14, discus 1 (saved to lot); Tile cover 4, tile pan 5 (saved to lot); Bone 26 (saved to lot); pigment, red, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, unidentified, 3 (saved to lot); Glass, clear blue 1 (saved to lot); seeds, burnt, 2 (saved to lot); Marble revetment, white, 2 (saved to lot); Slate 27 (saved to lot); Marble revetment, white 2 (saved to lot); Slate, fragments, 5 (saved to lot); shell land snail 2 (saved to lot); bronze, pin, 1 (saved to lot); Tile, Roman, 2 (saved to lot); pigment, blue, 2 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 1/2 2nd c. AD | |
| Grid: | 330-325.2E, 1083.1-1089.65N | |
| XMin: | 325.2 | |
| XMax: | 330 | |
| YMin: | 1083.1 | |
| YMax: | 1089.65 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 81.43-81.5m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2015 1020 Objects (6) Coins (7) |
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