| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 854 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Fill atop well opening | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1109 | |
| Context: | 854 | |
| Date: | 2015/06/11 | |
| Stratum: | Some pottery, bone, shell, several large boulders and re-used architectural members (~50cm), and many smaller boulders/cobbles. Tile fragments, some charcoal. | |
| Description: | The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | Semicircular deposit atop the well either directly inside the cut for the well, or, more likely the result of slumping of material below into the well opening (as with 831 above). In this latter case, the cut for the well is in a surface as yet unexposed. As with above layers, this was cut by pit 733 to the west. Tarp laid down inside the well to collect dirt for sieving. Digging exposed more of the 2 large boulders at the south, and more smaller boulders (~10-20cm) to the east and north. Soil has very few small inclusions. The rocks exposed at the east also extend around to the north of the opening. Two large stones south of the opening, both sitting on dirt and not on the well structure itself. 1) marble, roughly triangular. The face opening onto the well (E-W) is 44cm long, the side going in from the well (N-S) is 56. Thickness approx. 20cm. Tilted downwards to the north and east. 2) limestone, squared. Maximum visible N-S length is 57 cm; the stone continues to the south beneath an unremoved surface layer. E-W length, opening onto the well, is 43cm. Thickness is 27cm. The smaller boulders to the east and north are removed as part of the matrix, but were first measured and drawn by AMS at a 1:20 scale. Beneath the small boulders to the east and north, we come down on soil, then larger stones which seem to be laid flat; we seem to be coming down on the first course of the well proper. More pottery fragments in the soil as we move lower. At the east, a re-used, broken, and inverted architectural member. From the north side comes the lead pin or nail. Rubble at the north side spills further out, and to a lower level, than on the wast and south, where it was confined to a narrow band above the wall of the well. Perhaps ground level at this side was lower than on the east and south. In any event, we seem to have several construction phases visible at this point, possibly due to a raising of the well opening at a point after its initial construction. LN PJK 12/6/15: the architectural member at the east was removed so that James Herbst can draw the structure of the well. It turns out to be half off a column base, perhaps Roman. 24/06/2015 Larkin Kennedy, Rossana Valente Animal bones: sheep/goat, oyster, murex (1.28 kg) all thrown. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. glaze painted III, bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225), bowl. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. frakishincised1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 55 frag(s) 0.36 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 671 frag(s) 5.1 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 69 frag(s) 0.36 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron nail square shank, 3; iron flat strip, 1; glass clear colorless handle, 1; iron nail square shank, small size, 2 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | mid 13th c. | |
| Grid: | 131.82-130.4E, 1081.2-1083.14N | |
| XMin: | 130.4 | |
| XMax: | 131.82 | |
| YMin: | 1081.2 | |
| YMax: | 1083.14 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 83.92-84.48m. | |
| References: | Images (4) Object: MF 2015 51 |
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