| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | NB81 B103 P242 | |
| Area: | Korakou | |
| Category: | Basket/zembil | |
| Notebook: | 81 | |
| Context: | 103 | |
| Page: | 242 | |
| Date: | 1915/06/15 | |
| Stratum: | Trench S VI, south extension | |
| Notes: | S VI 1.45-1.65 or 1.70. Thru a stratum of extremely black earth = carbonized matter. There is also some wood ash. Bones, quite a number of sherds chiefly Minyan. Some decorated with incised patterns. A little Mattmalerei - one looks Melian has double circle with St. Andrew’s cross in it. At 1.65 in east side (1.70 in W) we strike a floor of reddish clay. Above this floor in the burnt stratum are a good many irregular lumps of clay [p. 243] some partly baked. These may be remains of bricks fallen from walls or chunks of clay put into hearth to hold up cooking pots etc. The burnt stratum goes on to the south beneath the wall mentioned on pp. 240-241. Wace thinks it may be the deposit from a hearth. We have found no hearth pavement for it save that ment. on pp. 240-241 but that may be too high. [This pottery below is from both B 88 and B 105] [p. 371] S VI 1.45-1.70 (2 trays) [MN: check mark] Minyan (a) gray 13 sherds 9 wheel - 4 handmade (b) black-gray 9 sherds wheelmade [AddN for (a) and (b): Real Minyan] (c) hand polished imitation of Minyan black 28 sherds brown 6 sherds. A good many of these have incised lines (cf. Tiryns and Mycenae) or stamped concentric circles or both. Finely polished. 2 other sherds not well polished [MN: 58 sherds Argive Minyan] [MN: circles were filled with white. Lines were not] Coarse polished ware ca. 1 doz sherds Coarse unpolished ca. 30 sherds [p. 372] Plain buff surfaced 4 sherds Urfirnis (a) poor wash etc. 10 sherds (b) decorated 1 sherd brown-black on buff. Looks Urfirnis rather than Mattmalerei [sketch of sherd] Mattmalerei (a) black on green or yellow green 18 sherds (note St. Andrew’s cross inside 2 concentric circles) Handmade and rather coarse (b) black on buff and red buff 9 sherds. Some of these seem wheelmade. (c) Purple black on buff and red buff 4 sherds. Somewhat polished. One seems handmade. Note: biscuit is buff. May be wheelmade [sketch of sherd] [MN for Mattmalerei: 31 sherds] | |
| Period: | Middle Helladic | |
| Site: | Korakou | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | -1.7--1.45m. |
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