| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field, context 78 | |
| Area: | New Apotheke: D. Kokolopoulos and E. Lambraki Field | |
| Title: | Room 5 - Ashy deposit W. of wall 52 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1111 | |
| Context: | 78 | |
| Date: | 2016/06/09 | |
| Stratum: | 10% tiles; 20% stone: 5% small pebbles, 5% medium pebbles, 10% coarse pebbles. | |
| Description: | The soil color is light grey. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silt. | |
| Notes: | -78 is much looser and softer and much more greyish than 63; 78 abuts 73 on its N. end. -Excavation of possible hearth in E. end of trench next to wall 52. -This is mostly light grey in color, but earth is mixed with darker brown silty earth and darker patches of darker grey ash (likely colored from charcoal). -This patch of ash is roughly oval in shape, 5m E-W and slightly less than one meter N-S. -In N. end, context runs into S. end of context 73, a small strip along the N. end of wall 52. The bottom of the ash in context 78 goes lower than the bottom of the ash in context 73, perhaps down to earlier floor level. -100% context taken for water sieving, in five and a half liter buckets. -Some bones collected from context as well as pottery. -Bottom of 78 similar in consistency to bottom of 48 and 73 -harder, more reddish, and clayier. Finds: bone | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), unidentified shape. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), cup. 1 handle. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Plainware. pitcher1 bodysherd. combed decoration; Plainware. burnished pitcher (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. stamnos. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. basin. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .incised wavy line; Fineware. frit1 rim. ; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 rim. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 6 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 167 frag(s) 1.5 kg. (2% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 25 frag(s) 0.25 kg. (4% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | pietra olare 7 fragments (-1cm); glass translucent light bluish green bs 1; glass clear light yellowish bs 1; glass clear light blue bs 1; glass slag; glass clear light yellow bs 1; glass weathered light bluish-green with applied glass string decoration (similar to MF 7617 NE) bs 1 base 1; glass yellowish decoration; glass clear greenish yellow bs 1; glass translucent light bluish green bs 2 rim 1; glass clear light greenish yellow cup rim 1; glass transparent light yellowish green bs 3; glass bs 2; glass translucent light greenish yellow base 1; glass clear crazed light yellowish bs 1 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | 11th cent. | |
| Grid: | -297.728--298.436E, 1482.987-1484.218N | |
| XMin: | -298.436 | |
| XMax: | -297.728 | |
| YMin: | 1482.987 | |
| YMax: | 1484.218 | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 58.22-58.499m. |