| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field, context 128 | |
| Area: | New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field | |
| Title: | Room 7 - Ashy Deposit in South Section | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1111 | |
| Context: | 128 | |
| Date: | 2016/06/14 | |
| Stratum: | 5-10% pottery; less than 5% bone; some compacted clay inclusions | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark brownish black. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | We opened context 128 in order to expose more of wall 126 and to bring the central area of similar ashy soil down to the level excavated in context 106. The layer of harder red soil extended below context 128, sloping down from west to east. There was a fair amount of pottery and bone from this context (5-10% and 5%, respectively), and we found a nail, some slag, and glass pieces, including another goblet-like stem and a rounded piece (possibly a game piece?). The soil further downt he slope became mixed in color, but remained hard in composition, ultimately extending below both context 106 and wall 80. This revealed that the ashy layer represented (in part) by 106 extends beneath wall 126. The larger stones at the east end of wall 26 persist in lower courses, whereas the rest of the wall is made of much smaller stones. Thanasis suggested that the smaller stones represented foundation courses. The construction of wall 126 is still somewhat unclear, because the slope of the hard deposit obscures the bottom of the small-stone courses, while there are no stones below the large stones at the eastern end, which extend downward to an elevation of circa 57.95. Wall 126 does clearly extend beneath wall 80, however. We decided then to leave room 7, because we had reached a depth such that it was clear that whatever surface levels had existed were elusive in the archaeological record. We have, however, come to a confident interpretation of the room's function as a space of industrial activity due to the amount of ash and slag. 21/6/16 TB and EJ: Glass stem collected from this context is similar in size, style, and color to glass stems collected from contexts 79, 106, and 140. NA-16: Glass weight NA-42: iron slag NA-43: iron slag | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), lamp. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)4 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .micaceous fabric; Coarseware. pithos lid. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. middle byzantine, amphora. 1 handle. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 6 frag(s) 0.005 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 800 frag(s) 11.75 kg. (1% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 152 frag(s) 2 kg. (3% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Iron nail with square shank (L 0.029); Glass clear greenish blue Stem 1 as MF 267 and MF 6539 (but MF 267 is slightly larger; see Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 711-723); Glass clear blue (severely weathered) BS 3; Glass clear light blue BS 3 Base 1; Iron slag (0.078 x 0.031 x 0.053); Iron objects or slag, severely weathered. (0.033 x 0.022 x 0.011m; 0.026 x 0.009 x 0.006m; 0.017 x 0.008 x 0.008). From sieve.; Iron nail with square shank (L 0.042); Glass clear colorless (severely weathered) BS 1 Rim 2; Glass clear yellowish green Rim 1; Glass clear light blue? (severely weathered) Base 1; Glass clear colorless BS 3; Obsidian debitage (0.013 x 0.008 x 0.005m); Glass clear yellowish brown sealing as MF-1976-4 and MF-10829 (See Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 2706, 2874-6) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 11th century | |
| Grid: | -292.94--295.42E, 1490.21-1491.43N | |
| XMin: | -295.42 | |
| XMax: | -292.94 | |
| YMin: | 1490.21 | |
| YMax: | 1491.43 | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 57.45-57.9m. |