| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | NB976 B69 P155 | |
| Area: | Panaghia north | |
| Category: | Basket/zembil | |
| Notebook: | 976 | |
| Context: | 69 | |
| Page: | 155 | |
| Date: | 2006/05/24 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2006-007 | |
| Stratum: | Non-violent destruction layer: compact silty-sand, yellowish-brown with 15% inclusions of small-medium pebbles, tiles, little plaster, mud brick. Poorly sorted. | |
| Notes: | This basket is the excavation of a non-violent destruction layer; little charcoal is found. Entire basket sieved 4 zembils dry-sived to 1 water sieved. 8 loom wieghts found; 4 removed to museum, 4 left in situ. They will be removed in B 70. A terra cotta fragment with gold leaf paint. See plan in notebook for position of the objects. 64 tile fragments uncovered, weight = 29,6 kg. Most of the tiles were found by wall 294. One very large tile measuring roughly .40 by .40 m also found. Tiles have been joined between baskets 61, 64 66, & 69. A fragment of a Hellenisitic hopper-mill and a rectilinear standardized lead weight that has either an alpha or a lambda as a central device. Weight unknown, perhaps a mina?? This weight was found through seiving. Cobble size mud-brick, one with a flat interior face. See NB 977 B54 for a ninth loom weight. A pottery fall was uncovered in the N of the stratum. Photographs were taken of this fall. Greyish clay? Of small cobble size also uncovered. Many iron nails, a terra cotta leg, and a large pithos base also number amoung the finds. Most of the nails found near wall 294 at the N end of B69. Fragments of a mold for megarian bowls have also been found and sent to the museum. This mold is also known from NB 977. After the pottery fall was cleaned, photos were taken (see p 156 of NB 976). Small pebbles found in the center of the pottery fall that are well-sorted. Baskwet stopped so that the area between the pottery fall and the floor could be excavated in a separate basket.. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. megarian bowl rim 2, bs 7 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. flat lid rim 2 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. blister ware bs 2 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. echinus bowl rim 8 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. grey ware plate rim 2, base 1, bs 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. bowl w/ outturned rim base 9, rim 9 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. pitcher handle 3, base 2, bs 18 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. grey ware krater rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. chytra/casserole rim 14, handle 12 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. jar rim 2 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. pitcher nonj B70 handle 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plate misc ca 60 bs (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. pan rim 3, base 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. flat rim plate rim 26, base 8 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Rhodian amph handle 2, bs ca 30 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. krater rim 4, bases 5 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. saucer rim 12 (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 363 frag(s) 2.06 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 625 frag(s) 11.65 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 612 frag(s) 4.43 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | TC, gilded, with black ptd background, turret from crown? 1, as B 70 (saved to lot); lead standardized weight w/ raised edges, alpha or lamda as central symbol, iron nail driven through upper left corner, mina (W. 0.059, L . 0.07, Th. 0.017, WT. 0.43), origin unknown, similar to MF 85-46 (saved to lot); bone astralaglus 1, distal phalange unid 1, unid ca 40 (saved to lot); TC spin top, with concentric grooves, white sl, and ptd pink, with iron tip, pierced through 1, j B 68 and B 70 (saved to lot); iron pin with round bronze head 1 (saved to lot); megarian bowl mold rim 2, bs 2 (saved to lot); TC figurine, female head, white sl, red ptd fillet bow 1, similar to Corinth XII, no. 266 (saved to lot); TC plaque fragment 12 (saved to lot); TC loomweight, conical, cp 1, H. 0.084, WT. 0.21, as Corinth XII, no. 1187 (saved to lot); iron nail with squared shank and round head 2 (saved to lot); TC figurine, Kybele, hand holding tympanum 1 (saved to lot); iron strip 2 (saved to lot); TC loomweight, conical, cp 1, H. 0.102, WT. 0.30, as Corinth XII, no. 1190 (saved to lot); TC figurine, female, drapery 1 (saved to lot); TC turret from crown? 1, as B 70 (saved to lot); lead rivet 2 (saved to lot); TC figurine drapery 6, unid 3, arm 1 (saved to lot); iron nail round head 1 (saved to lot); iron nail 2 (saved to lot); bronze thick strip 1 (saved to lot); bronze thin strip 1 (saved to lot); TC loomweight, conical, with upside down stamped ARCHI, cp 1, H. 0.093, WT. 0.28, as Corinth XII, no. 1190 (saved to lot); ptd plaster red 2 (saved to lot); bronze lump 1 (saved to lot); glass, ring bezel 1 (saved to lot); tile 64, WT. 29.6; TC loomweight, conical, with flat base, cp 1, H. 0.094, WT. 0.35, similar to Corinth XII, no. 1187 (saved to lot); stone hopper mill (saved to lot); iron nail with squared shank body 4 (saved to lot); mudbrick 1; TC altar base 1 (saved to lot); iron nail with squared shank body, bent 1 (saved to lot); shell cardia 3, murex 1 (saved to lot); TC figurine, leg (calf) 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | 2nd quarter 2nd c. B.C. (pottery) 250-146 B.C.(loomweights) | |
| Grid: | 412.65-410E, 970.5-973N | |
| XMin: | 410 | |
| XMax: | 412.65 | |
| YMin: | 970.5 | |
| YMax: | 973 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 91.01-91.17m. | |
| References: | Images (5) Objects (12) Notebook Page: NB 976, spread 85 (pp. 154 - 155) |
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