Corinth Basket South Stoa, context 68

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		South Stoa, context 68
Area:		South Stoa
Context Type:		deposit
Title:		Well fill, 18th deposit from top
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		68
Date:		2015/05/21
Lot:		Lot 2015-087
Stratum:		5% small-medium angular stone, 2% bone, flecks of carbon, a few pieces of yellowish clay as above.
Description:		Top slope of the context is even. The soil color is light brownish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey sand.
Notes:		Characteristics: same as 67 This context was begun arbitrarily after ca. 25 cm of 67. A pocket of a darker soil with more carbon flecks than the rest. A large tc fragment of the stoa's roof line came out at 5.05m (el 76.33) near the darker soil. From the same level, a large rounded limestone (approx. 0.23 x 0.20 x 0.12m) chunk came out. It is the largest of the 15 stones removed from the well so far. The limestone is a whiteish yellow. The soil is a little softer as we go down but the inclusions are the same, so I believe it is the same context. There is some soil with small black carbon pieces attached to them, but this part of of the soil. None of the tiles themselves have any traces of burning. We are changing this context arbitrarily after 25 cm. There was more pottery in this context than the others so far. NB. So far starting with context 6 we have removed directly from the well (and smaller fragments went to the sieve); 25 large pieces of yellow pan tile; 5 cover tiles. The tile will be weighed and counted by context. Tiles (pan and cover): 17 = 20.80 kg
Context Pottery:		Fineware. kantharos. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Dressel 2-4, amphora. 1 rim. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .Campanian?; Coarseware. Amphoras- M. w. j.1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .milk chocolate brown fabric; Fineware. saucer. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. (saved to lot) .red wash interior; Coarseware. knidian amphora. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. prehistoric3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. flat rim plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. pitcher. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Greco-Italic, amphora. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .Italian; Coarseware. Corinthian A Prime, amphora. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Roman, stewpot. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Corinthian B, amphora. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. casserole. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Rhodian, amphora. 2 rims. 1 handle. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Knidian, amphora. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Archaic, pyxis lid. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Hellenistic, mortar. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. lid. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Hellenistic, cup. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .one-handled; Fineware. moldmade bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		16 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		8 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		5 frag(s) 0.03 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		bone, unid, 92 = 0.15kg (saved to lot); white chalk, 1 (saved to lot); bone, unid, 1 (saved to lot); lead mending strip, t-shaped 1 (saved to lot); iron, lump, 7 (saved to lot); pebble cement, 1 (saved to lot); bone, jaw, 1 (saved to lot); bone, unid, burnt, 1 (saved to lot); lead, strip, 2 (saved to lot); bronze, lump, 3 (saved to lot); pithos, archaic to hellenistic, 1 (saved to lot); Shell, land snail, 120 = 0.4kg (unwashed) (saved to lot); shell patella 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail, 33 (saved to lot); iron, nail head, 3 (saved to lot); shell flesh eater 3 (saved to lot); tile, pan, yellow, 10 (saved to lot); wall plaster, red, 3 (saved to lot); lead, lump, 1 (saved to lot)
Period:		Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD)
Chronology:		late 1st-early 2nd c. AD
Grid:		327.8-327.1E, 1085.25-1086.5N
XMin:		327.1
XMax:		327.8
YMin:		1085.25
YMax:		1086.5
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		76.18-76.43m.
References:		Object: C 2015 64 Object: FS 2015 4 Coin: 2015 281