Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 541

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 541
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Fill of floor, SW corner of Unit 2, Room 2
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1108
Context:		541
Date:		2014/06/16
Lot:		Lot 2014-049
Stratum:		5% small-medium subangular pebbles, glass, ceramic sherds, lead
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is light brownish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:		This context in the SE corner of Unit 2, Room 2, is related very closely to context 540, also rocky floor fill. It is a layer of floor fill, like the majority of contexts excavated in this area of this campaign so far. This layer of floor fill has slightly fewer inclusiosn than deposit 540, but these inclusions are more varied in type (including, e.g., several hollowed-out pieces of lead). The removal of this floor layer revealed the outline of what is perahps the true border for the directly W of and adjacent to this context, which was perhaps slightly underdug during the 1990s. We will proceed by excavating subsequent underlaying floor layers in an effort to find a pit cut at the center of the room and cuts for foundation trenches for the room's walls. The removal of this surface also revealed the outline of a square object (possibly a bench?) against which the floor abutted. See photos (2014 764 and 766) for this feature. Coordinates for pieces of lead, hollowed out in the center - weights for a fishing net?: E 119.52, N 1063.95, H 85.08. Large rock coordinates: E 119.50, N 1063.49, H 85.20. Animal bones: 0.15 kg (saved with lotted pottery)
Context Pottery:		Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. (saved to lot) .decorated with three claws of gryffon or lion; Fineware. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. veneto, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matt painted, stamnos. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware.
Pottery Summary:		20 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		117 frag(s) 0.5 kg. (3% saved) coarseware.
		7 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		terracotta palmette antefix after FA 2006 1 ?, 1; glass clear colorless with blue rim as MF 95-15, rim, 4; glass clear olive green, bs, 1; shell, 1; glass clear colorless, bs, 19; lead, tubes, fishing weights ?, 6 (saved to lot); glass clear brownish, bs, 1; glass clear greenish, neck, 2 (1 inv.); glass clear colorless with relief deco, bs, 1; glass clear colorless, prunted beaker as MF 7518, base, 1
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		Late 13th/early 14th century
Grid:		119.9-118.89E, 1062.3-1065.19N
XMin:		118.89
XMax:		119.9
YMin:		1062.3
YMax:		1065.19
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.06-85.11m.
References:		Object: MF 2014 54