| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field, context 71 | |
| Area: | New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field | |
| Title: | Room 6 - Dump Fill Coming Down on Surface Debris | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1111 | |
| Context: | 71 | |
| Date: | 2016/06/08 | |
| Stratum: | 5% bone concentrated toward the West; less than 5% ceramic material at first, but ~5 cm down became more concentrated, 5-10%; sparse tiny pebbles or other inclusions, except in East side, which held a heavy concentration of tile and stone up to ~50%. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark brownish black. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | We opened context 71 as we thought that we might be approaching a floor. At first, there as very little ceramic material from this deposit, but a lot of bone, including large bovine (?) pieces concentrated in the West, and a very heavy concentration of tile and stone in the East. On the second pass through the area, the ceramic debris became notably heavier; three buckets were collected in total. Tile remained relatively concentrated to the East side. In the third pass, we uncovered what appears to be surface debris in the East side: heavy scatter with relatively flat lying sherds. Thirteen pieces of glass, iron slag, two nails, charcoal, a metal blade, lapis lacedaemonius, a bronze strip, and two ambiguous pieces of iron were collected from this context. Having reached this presumed surface debris, we stopped excavation in room 6 after this point in order to begin digging elsewhere on site. NA-22: complete iron knife NA-23: lapis lacedaemonius NA-39: iron slag | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. (saved to lot) .spot of glaze on rim; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)4 rims. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. basin. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. small basin. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .wavy line; Fineware. Maghreb, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)5 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), cup. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. large basin. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .wave pattern; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .burnished, with stabbed decoration; Coarseware. gouged, pitcher. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .burnished; spots of glaze; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), lamp. 2 complete profiles. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .matt-painted | |
| Pottery Summary: | 37 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 708 frag(s) 17.05 kg. (1% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 156 frag(s) 2.3 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Glass clear bluish green (heavily weathered) BS 1; Iron knife blade, as MF-2009-14 except smaller in size (0.086m); see Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat 1567-1573; Bronze strip, as MF-2014-49 and MF 2015-5A and 5B (see Davidson 1952, Corinth 12, cat. 917, 937, and 938); Glass clear yellowish Rim 1; Glass clear colorless applied handle 1 (similar to MF-1992-36); Iron nails with square shank (L 0.036m, one bent but circa 0.09m); Iron strip 1; Glass clear colorless BS 1; Iron piece or slag 1; Glass clear light green BS 1; Lapis lacedaemonius possible revetment 1 (0.046m x 0.023m x 0.004m); Charcoal 1; Glass clear green Rim 1; Iron slag 1 (0.088m x 0.070m x 0.032 m); Glass clear yellow BS 1; Glass clear greenish blue BS 2. Whitish substance on exterior, either paint or weathering as MF-1969-124 or MF-1969-127; Glass clear blue BS 1; Glass completely weathered BS 1; Glass clear green BS 1 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 11th to early 12th century | |
| Grid: | -293.65--297.15E, 1481.02-1483.15N | |
| XMin: | -297.15 | |
| XMax: | -293.65 | |
| YMin: | 1481.02 | |
| YMax: | 1483.15 | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 58.25-58.52m. |