| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | NB979 B17 P29 | |
| Area: | Panaghia west | |
| Category: | Basket/zembil | |
| Notebook: | 979 | |
| Context: | 17 | |
| Page: | 29 | |
| Date: | 2006/05/04 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2006-001 | |
| Stratum: | Pit fill. Stratum is dark yellowish brown silty clay with 5 % cobbles and 15% pebbles, loose. | |
| Notes: | B 17 is the continuation of the removal of the fill from Pit 2006-01. I suspect that there is no difference between B 17 and B 9, and in fact B 7 might also be the same. There are large pockets of carbon and ash in the soil matrix, just as in B 7. The soil is also quite dark. We determined today that Pit 2006-01 most likely cut the foundation trench (to the east- against Wall 289) and we observed on the eastern side of Wall 289 that the foundation trench is quite wide. Also, while the soil of B 7 (in the eastern portion) was indeed part of B 7, it was slightly looser and darker in the eastern edge, right against walls 215 and 289. That is probably because it overlay the foundation trench B 16. Also, there was a pronounced lip between Pit 2006-01 and B 16. We sieved 80% and reserved 20% for the water-sieve. The large pockets of carbon tended to cluster near Pit 2005-01. We found another odd piece: what appears to be an amphora handle in coarse clay. We found one in B 6, which is why we now think that B 6 is the messy top of Pit 2006-01. (We called it a waster on pg. 10). We stopped excavating B 17 as a basket when we were unable to keep the excavated soil within Pit 2006-01. Instead it had to be pushed down into the bottom of Pit 2005-01, where it was contaminated. Therefore, we began a cleaning basket (B 18). Found bronze, iron and bone. See pg. 29 for a section at c. 967.50. See pg. 30 for a sketch of the amphora handle. See pg. 30 for top plan. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. Oinochoe eg handle 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Arretine form 4 rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. unid rs base 1, bs 1 (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. As C-1985-37 cp 1 joining with B 9 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Arretine unid bs 2, rim 1 (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. interior glazed basin rim 3, base 2 (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 96 frag(s) 0.68 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 587 frag(s) 1.46 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 114 frag(s) 1.18 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bronze lump 10 (saved to lot); bronze strip 2 (saved to lot); bronze slag 1 (saved to lot); amphora handle embedded in coarse clay as MF 1968-328 (saved to lot); iron knife blade? Fragment 1 (saved to lot); bone unid 8 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2nd half of 1st A.C. | |
| Grid: | 409.43-408.52E, 966.77-968.22N | |
| XMin: | 408.52 | |
| XMax: | 409.43 | |
| YMin: | 966.77 | |
| YMax: | 968.22 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 90.38-90.9m. | |
| References: | Notebook Page: NB 979, spread 23 (pp. 29 - 30) |
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