Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Basket | |
Name: | New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field, context 15 | |
Area: | New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field | |
Title: | Room 2 - Leveling fill N. of Wall 6 | |
Category: | Deposit | |
Notebook: | 1111 | |
Context: | 15 | |
Date: | 2016/05/31 | |
Stratum: | 10% stones-7% sub-rounded and tabular spherical medium pebbles, 3% sub-rounded spherical coarse pebbles; 5% tile; 5% pottery | |
Description: | The soil color is dark reddish black. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is well sorted. It is silty clay. | |
Notes: | -Excavation of baulk along W. half of room -More compact and harder layer below context 7; more reddish soil -Exposed level below is more reddish and more compact than context 15; this is likely a floor level -Coin found in center of context, likely upon floor level (2016-154) -Pass taken to N. edge of Wall 6 -Soil composition generally finer, more well-sorted than previous contexts 7 and 3 -As pass reached SE corner of context, a greater number of tiles were recovered than previously encountered in pass; this may be because we are approaching wall -Earth in SE quadrant of context is softer and darker in color; this may be fill for cut foundation trench since it is near wall 3/6/2016 Bones: 0.07 kg, 6 fragments 21/6/16 NA-8: Coin [Old number Coin 2016-154, void] Constantinople issue Constantius II or Constans (341-6) | |
Context Pottery: | Fineware. late roman, plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), unidentified. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. mid-Byz, amphora. 3 handles. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .wavy line; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish?. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-roman3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
Pottery Summary: | 8 frag(s) 0.6 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
101 frag(s) 1.14 kg. (7% saved) coarseware. | ||
18 frag(s) 1.1 kg. (22% saved) cooking ware. | ||
Context Artifacts: | glass, bs1 (saved to lot) | |
Period: | Byzantine | |
Chronology: | 11th cent. | |
Grid: | -298.843--300.871E, 1470.569-1474.12N | |
XMin: | -300.871 | |
XMax: | -298.843 | |
YMin: | 1470.569 | |
YMax: | 1474.12 | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
Masl: | 59.174-59.186m. | |
References: | Coin: 2016 154 |