| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Glauke West, context 22 | |
| Area: | Glauke West | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Glauke west, south trench, fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1102 | |
| Context: | 22 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/11/12 | |
| Stratum: | 80% tiles, medium to large pebbles, a few small cobbles. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is dark brownish black. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is coarse sand. | |
| Notes: | We started 22 as a second pass of the same fill as 19 to the south. Just south of pit 8, 22 revealed the rest of a large block first exposed with 19. When it was turned over, this block was found to be a piece of architectural sculpture, an Early Christian impost capital, with acanthus leaves, as Corinth XVI, no. 78, from Agora South Central. Dimensions of block: L. 0.52, W. 0.38, H. 0.15. It preserves one sculpted face, smoothed resting and bearing surfaces. Also uncovered part of a pilaster or wall base, L. 0.17, H. 0.13, W. 0.07. For capital see photographs: 2008- : architectural sculpture in fill; 2008- block turned over. 22 also revealed a deposit of clayey soil with carbon that stretches from ca. 26.00 N (to the northern side of 8, as revealed by 19). Pit 8 cut through this clayey soil as well as the fill represented by 19 and 22. With the completion of 22 the trench is as follows: it contains a north-south wall (6 plust its robbing trenches 10, 11, 14, 12), and the start of what appears to be a cross wall (see structure 23) to the west. The small patch of floor (20) west of wall 6 indicates what is likely the interior space of the structure. The N-S wall 6 continues further to the north and south, indicating that the structure continues in those directions, as well as to the west. The fills to the east of wall 6 (19, 22) seem to post-date the wall. Initial study of the pottery, coins and small finds, suggest that all of this activity dates to the early to mid 19th century. If datable, the floor 20 and possible floor 21 will give an indication of the possible date or at least period of use of wall 6. Above these 19th century layers, the trench contained a thick layer of fill that was heavily disturbed by the trees and their roots as well as the installation of the electrical pipeline at the eastern edge of the trench. Initial study of the pottery, coins and small finds suggest a date of early modern for this fill. Above this general fill was a layer of top soil, containing a 5 drachma coin of 1992. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. basin. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. jar. ; Fineware. bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. 29 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Arretine, plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. sgraffito I, slipped painted (1160-1180), plate. 2 rims. ; Coarseware. amphora. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 6 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 32 frag(s) 3.4 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 2 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | 1 marble chip; 1 iron nail, square | |
| Period: | Early Modern (1831-1949 AD) | |
| Chronology: | NPD | |
| Grid: | 33.2-30.5E, 25.05-27.8N | |
| XMin: | 30.5 | |
| XMax: | 33.2 | |
| YMin: | 25.05 | |
| YMax: | 27.8 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 82.53-82.73m. |