Corinth Basket NB976 B24 P59

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		NB976 B24 P59
Area:		Panaghia north
Category:		Basket/zembil
Notebook:		976
Context:		24
Page:		59
Date:		2006/05/05
Stratum:		mixed fill N of wall 215; mix of darker and redder reddish-brown, loose silty soil with 5% inclusions
Notes:		Basket 24 is the removal of mixed fill in which the darker and the redder soils are intermixed and have similar inclusions. Tile, plaster, and scattered bits of charcoal are present. We are coming upon a compact surface of yellow clay; this clay surface is the same surface found in baskets 20 and 22. The closer we approach the compact surface, the fewer number of tiles; instead we are getting chunks of plaster interspersed among the soil. We are curious how the compact yellow (marl) clay surface relates to wall 215. We have found 1 coin, bronze, iron, glass, painted plaster and bone. We are not coming down on the compact yellow surface E of 405.5. Re: the "well head": while we originally believed the well head to have been installed in the 6th c. we now believe it to be earlier. If the well head was indeed 6th c. we would have found a robbing trench or a foundation trench which we have not. Therefore it seems that the well head was installed prior to the 6th c. and then the ear was churned up. We are currently trying to determine the relationship between the hard clay "floor" surface and the surrounding fill so we are sweeping the entire area and A215 in an attempt to make things clearer. We had thought that perhaps the yellow compact clay layer extended out to the north. However, we now thing that this may be an isolated patch of this matrix so we are trying to figure out how to proceed.
Context Pottery:		Cooking ware. as Hesperia 1994 no 37 rim 2; Fineware. chandarli form 4 base 1; Fineware. chandarli form 1 base 2,; Fineware. chandarli form 2, rim 1; Fineware. Arretine form 19 rim 1; Cooking ware. trefm pitcher rim 1; Cooking ware. round m pitcher handle 5; Cooking ware. lids flat rims 3; Fineware. chandarli form 3 rim 1; Fineware. chandarli unid bs 6; Fineware. Corinthian rs; Fineware. pre Roman ca. 30; Coarseware. Nied77 rim 1; Fineware. ESA bs 1; Cooking ware. as Hesperia 1994 no. 42 rim 1; Fineware. AfRS bs 1; Fineware. ESB form 80 rim 1; Fineware. Attic gouged bowl rim 1; Cooking ware. as Hesperia 1994 no. 51 rim 1
Pottery Summary:		91 frag(s) 0.5 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		430 frag(s) 1.32 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		223 frag(s) 3.74 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass colorless, greenish disc foot 1; TC figure knee 1; bronze lump 2; teeth molar sus 2; red chert nodule 1; schist revetment 1; iron nail squared shank round head 2; TC bird; glass colorless, clear, tubular ring foot 2, bs 14, w/ embedded threads bs 2, rounded flaring rim 2, base 1, bottle base 1, conical beaker rim w/ grooved line 1, trail handle w/ embedded thread 1, vertical tapered rim 1, w/ applique bs 1; incisors sus 4, avis 2,; glass colorless bluish w/ embedded threads bs 1, bs 7; bone unid ca. 40; glass colorless, white, bs 16, w/ embedded thread bs 2, flaring rounded rim 2, base 2, rounded incurving rim 1, ring foot 1; plaster painted red 21, banded 3, white 7, black 19, yellow 10, blue 1 (saved to lot); glass, colorless, clear, flaring ring foot 1, joining B 27; glass, colorless, bluish, w/ applique bs 1 (saved to lot); marble vase base 1 (saved to lot); lamp type 27, ovolo pattern shoulder 2, undec shoulder handle 1, other shoulder 2, base 4, handle 1, bs 1; shell murex 5, cardia 3,; marble revetment 4
Period:		Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD)
Chronology:		3rd c. npd
Grid:		407-404.2E, 969.15-974N
XMin:		404.2
XMax:		407
YMin:		969.15
YMax:		974
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		91.49-91.63m.
References:		Coin: 2006 29 Notebook Page: NB 976, spread 37 (pp. 58 - 59)