| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 369 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context Type: | Deposit | |
| Title: | Foundation trench of northern segment of Late Wall | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1110 | |
| Context: | 369 | |
| Date: | 2016/04/13 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2016-016 | |
| Stratum: | Many inclusions: charcoal; rocks of every size; bone; pottery, including many large, thick amphora or pithos sherds; a large amount of broken marble, small to medium in size | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is pinkish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | Coins in this context: 56: sieve 58: 338.52, 1089.37, 81.4 59: 338.48, 1089.28, 81.20 60: sieve 61: sieve 62: 338.7, 1089.28, 81.17 [NB Easting and Northing are approximate, based on a guesstimated remeasurement after we discovered that the total station had been set up incorrectly on the morning of the 14th) We open this context to excavate the foundation trench of the Late Wall at the eastern end of Room 4 Front (i.e., the northern segment of our Late Wall). The fill is generally a yellowish brown silty sand similar to other contexts in the area, but becomes more orangeish or pinkish toward the bottom of the trench, as the soft bedrock of the area is scraped. The fill is also characterized by a very large amount of broken marble pieces (15%?) and chips, as well as large pieces of pottery. We keep a large, more-than-representative but not complete, sampling of the marble in with the pottery. After initial passes, at a depth of ca. 0.20 m, a possible floor surface is found along much of the trench, especially in the southern areas, and the foundation trench itself narrows inward by around 0.25-35 m (see Cut 373). We close when we reach the bedrock / fill with much redeposited bedrock on the bottom of the trench. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. Dressel 7-1120 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Pre-Roman61 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Arretine, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Amphora stopper1 complete profile. ; Fineware. Arretine, plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Red-painted, pitcher. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Mortarium; Fineware. ESA, plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ; Fineware. ESB, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 85 frag(s) 0.26 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 229 frag(s) 7.83 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 80 frag(s) 0.56 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | charcoal fr (one large), 26 (saved to lot); iron nail round shank, 1 (saved to lot); iron nailhead, 1 (saved to lot); tile red painted fr, 1 (saved to lot); brick, 1 (saved to lot); bone knucklebone, 1 (saved to lot); iron nailhead, 1 (saved to lot); marble revetment mainly grey fr, 85 (saved to lot); bone fr, 13 (saved to lot); iron nail upper part square shank, 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Roman | |
| Chronology: | 1st c. AD | |
| Grid: | 339-337.7E, 1088.4-1091.5N | |
| XMin: | 337.7 | |
| XMax: | 339 | |
| YMin: | 1088.4 | |
| YMax: | 1091.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 81.05-81.64m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2016 0166 Image: digital 2016 0174 Coins (6) |
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