Corinth Basket: NB976 B71 P162
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   NB976 B71 P162
Area:   Panaghia north
Category:   Basket/zembil
Notebook:   976
Context:   71
Page:   162
Date:   2006/05/26
Lot:   Lot 2006-006
Stratum:   destruction deposit S of wall 291, E of wall 294, and N of the E-W wall N of wall 215; reddish-brown, slightly compact, silty soil, poorly sorted, with 10% inclusions of coarse pebbles and a few cobbles
Notes:   Some tile is present (12 fragments with a weight of 3.8 kg.), as well as marl chunks, dissolved building material, and mudbrick chunks. We have found 2 coins, one through dry sieving and one at E 410.51/N 972.48 with an elevation of 91.04. We are sieving all soil with 1 out of 5 zembils being water-sieved. A terracotta figurine was found at E 411.73/N 971.43 with an elevation of 91.04. Another one terracotta, a headless female, was found at E 411.86/N 971.26 with an elevation of 91.03. near the TC figurines were found more fragments of mould-made bowl moulds (i.e. E 411.05/N 971.69 with an elevation of 91.05). Directly E of wall 294 are more inclusions, ca. 35% with tiles and cobbles. We are also coming down upon cobbles and a pebbly layer E of wall 294.
Context Pottery:   Coarseware. krater rim 2 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. flat lid rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. miniature jug handle 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. articulated kantharos handle 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot/casserole rim 2, handle 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. frying pan rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. echinus bowl rim 5 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. flat-rimmed plate rim 7, bs 1 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. shallow bowl rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. bowl with outturned rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. roll rim plate rim 1 (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:   54 frag(s) 0.28 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
    96 frag(s) 1.5 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
    133 frag(s) 0.8 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   andesite frgt, triangular section, stepped 1, L. 0.152, W. 0.10, TH. 0.046 (saved to lot); metatarsus unid 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, base 1 (saved to lot); tile 12, WT. 3.8; pithos bs 1 (saved to lot); TC figurine, female, headless, arms crossed at waist, pierced on bottom, probably attached to another unknown object. (saved to lot); TC figurine drapery 1 (saved to lot); TC figurine, Aphrodite, nude torso 1, similar to Corinth XII, no.380 (saved to lot); bone unid 3 (saved to lot); mandible carnivore 1 (saved to lot); shell calista 1 (saved to lot); obsidian primary flake 1 (saved to lot); roof tile 5 (saved to lot); iron nail, square head w/ oval shank 1, shank square 1, thickened strap (Th .007) 1 (saved to lot)
Period:   Hellenistic
Chronology:   2nd quarter of 2nd c. B.C.
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:   90.99-91.05m.
References:   Object: C 2006 39
Object: MF 2005 32
Coin: 2006 73
Coin: 2006 74
Notebook Page: NB 976, spread 89 (pp. 162 - 163)