| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | NB982 B96 P174 | |
| Area: | Panaghia north | |
| Category: | Basket/zembil | |
| Notebook: | 982 | |
| Context: | 96 | |
| Page: | 174 | |
| Date: | 2007/04/18 | |
| Stratum: | Exterior floor surface. Light yellowish brown, weakly cemented coarse grained, 50-70% inclusions, medium pebbles to bolders, silty sand. | |
| Notes: | Basket 96 represents an exterior floor surface that came to light at the bottom of basket 95. The soil is filled with medium to large inclusions such as tile fragments, pottery sherds, cement lining, and cobble to boulder sized rocks, chunks of mudbrick were also observed in this basket. The basket removed the entire thickness of the floor surface as well as a thin layer of soil underneath the floor. A bronze coin turned up within the floor surface as E414.95, N975.46, elevation 91.55. Initially, it was believed that one pass could remove all of the floor surface, however rocks, tiles, and pottery fragments were still observed after one pass and so another pass was removed in this basket. After a 2nd pass, the workmen noticed a change in the number of inclusions such as the tiles, rocks and pottery. After two passes, it is uncertain whether the thcikness of the basket represents one very thick floor or two successive floor surfaces. If the latter is the case it was too difficult to determine different floor surfaces. Soil from the 2nd pass was dry sifted meaning that a little less the half of the basket was sieved. After the second pass, the SE section of the basket was free of any inclusions and the workmen claimed to reach a somewhat level hard packed surface. This surface was only observed in the eastern half ot he basket. In the western half, tiles, rocks and large pottery sherds came to light at about the same elevation as the hard packed surface. At this point it is unclear what these large inclusions represent. The western half inclusions seem to be aligned parallel to wall 290 to the west; if this is the case we may have the top of a foundation trench for wall 290. Further excavations in this area will hopfeully shed light on the exact nature of these inclusions. Guy Sanders suggested that the hard packed soil surface may be an exterior surface associated with the Roman tile-lined pool to the east that has had its walls robbed out. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. Pre-Roman 20; Fineware. ESB bs 2 | |
| Pottery Summary: | 23 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 91 frag(s) 1.84 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 27 frag(s) 0.16 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Coarse plaster backing 4; Obsidian flake (saved to lot); Wall plaster red 19 black 4 (saved to lot); Small slag ? 1 originally thought to be coin 2007-52; Roof tile 10; Chert red 1; Tesserae white 1 | |
| Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
| Chronology: | NPD | |
| Grid: | 415.34-414.18E, 974.93-976.98N | |
| XMin: | 414.18 | |
| XMax: | 415.34 | |
| YMin: | 974.93 | |
| YMax: | 976.98 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 91.52-91.63m. | |
| References: | Coin: 2007 44 Coin: 2007 51 Coin: 2007 52 Notebook Page: NB 982, spread 99 (pp. 173 - 174) |
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