| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 339 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Wall fall debris, 2nd lense from top | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 339 | |
| Date: | 2014/05/19;2014/05/20 | |
| Stratum: | Slope of context ranges from moderate to steep. Soil is medium to dark in color modifier. Inclusions of large flat tiles, many stones (sub-rounded cobbles and angular tabular and platy boulders), pottery, and bone (approximatley 60%) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is moderate down to the E. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | The second lense of debris from the wall collapse preserves larger stones, including boulders, and several large fragments of flat tiles. It is likely that we are removing the collapse of the E face of the wall, which was constructed of large cut stone, re-used from surrounding structures, including the temenos of Temple E, and flat tiles in between courses. The more rubbly layer above this lense, then, represents the collapse of the chunky interior fill of the wall between its faces. We begin to remove this substantial wall debris with small picks from the E moving up the slope to the W. The preserved top of the wall is leaning dramatically to the E, clearly illustrating the point at which this wall toppled. The soil in this layer is a soft, dark reddish-brown. The reddish hue of the soil is likely due to the significant number of tiles that were used in the construction of this wall that has collapsed. The removal of this lense reveals a lumpy clayey lense underneath. That appears to be the melted clay and rubble from the east face of the wall. Five coins (2014-142, 2014-145, 2014-146, 2104-148, and 2014-149) were found in the dry sieve. Pottery, bone, glass and iron were collected in this context. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. glaze painted no overglaze1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. double dipped maiolica1 rim. (saved to lot) .inventory; Coarseware. stamnos. 1 rim. 2 handles. 21 bodysherds. matt painted | |
| Pottery Summary: | 78 frag(s) 0.5 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 505 frag(s) 3.45 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 129 frag(s) 0.7 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless, rim, 1, original D: 0.10, joining context 350; bronze, earring with loop, as MF-7705, 11th-12th century; iron, lump, 2; glass clear colorless, bs, 5; iron, nail round shank, 1; obsidian, 1; glass clear colorless, beaker, rim 1, base 1, as MF 1992-30; glass clear colorless, with blue ridging, bs, 1; iron, blade, 1; glass clear purple, bs, 1; iron, nail square shank, 1; glass clear green, bs, 2 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Grid: | 114.63-112.29E, 1075.9-1078.94N | |
| XMin: | 112.29 | |
| XMax: | 114.63 | |
| YMin: | 1075.9 | |
| YMax: | 1078.94 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.37-85.52m. | |
| References: | Images (5) Object: C 2014 7 Object: MF 2014 35 Coins (5) |
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