Corinth Basket: New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field, context 45 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Basket | | Name: | | New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field, context 45 | | Area: | | New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field | | Title: | | Room 1 - Drain | | Category: | | Structure | | Notebook: | | 1111 | | Context: | | 45 | | Date: | | 2016/06/03 | | Description: | | Structure materials: limestone, tile. Material size: stones: e.g. 0.20 x 0.20 x 0.9; 0.37 x 0.30 x 0.8; 0.7 x 0.13 x 0.13m. Tiles: e.g. 0.72 x 0.22 x 0.8; 0.30 x 0.05 x 0.08m.. Material finish: roughly hewn. Material bonding: clay. | | Notes: | | We uncovered the drain by excavating its fill (deposit 44) on 3/6/16. It runs north from wall 18 and curves slighly towards the east. The bottom is composed of five long, flat tiles, roughly 0.70 x 0.30 cm in size. The long sides of each tile have a roughly 8cm raised lip, to hold water, such that a cross-section of a tile would look like an inverted letter pi. The second tile, counting north from wall 18, has a wavy line down the middle decorating it. Each long tile has a course of smaller, flat tiles, about 0.30m in length, running along it on top of each lip, and above these are irregular courses of stones. This, along with the collapse debris around the wall, suggests that the drain was covered in its entirety by wall 18. The drain slopes downward to the north, but the northmost tile is higher than the one immediately to its south by about 0.05m. Because the northmost tile is still at a lower elevation (58.75m) than the two southmost tiles (58.85m and 58.81m), and because there is clear damage to the western side of the third large tile, we suspect that the third and fourth tiles caved in slightly in some collapse, lowering their elevation and comopromising the function of the drain. | | Period: | | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | | Chronology: | | Use of drain spans 11th to 12th centuries (with wall 18) | | Grid: | | -302.73--303.51E, 1471.04-1474.85N | | XMin: | | -303.51 | | XMax: | | -302.73 | | YMin: | | 1471.04 | | YMax: | | 1474.85 | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | Masl: | | 58.57-58.81m. |
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