Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Basket | |
Name: | South Stoa, context 70 | |
Area: | South Stoa | |
Context Type: | deposit | |
Title: | Well Fill, 19th deposit from top | |
Category: | Deposit | |
Notebook: | 1109 | |
Context: | 70 | |
Date: | 2015/05/21 | |
Lot: | Lot 2015-086 | |
Stratum: | 5% small-medium pebbles, 5% tile and pottery, 2% chunks of yellow compacted clay, few small flecks of carbon | |
Description: | Top slope of the context is even. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey sand. | |
Notes: | Same soil as 78 but fewer tiles. This context was begun arbitrarily after 25 cm was excavated in context 68. The soil contains slightly more yellow clay than the last few contexts but the inclusions seem to be mostly the same - bone and shell. Like 68, it contains considerably more pottery than the contexts in the upper two moeters of the well. There is also much less tile and many more snail shells. The soil is getting damper as we end this context after excavating 25 cm. (By the end/bottom of the context, there were fewer land snail shells in the soil but otherwise it was consistent - May 21) We also found some decayed mudbrick pieces in it. N.B. Marios has said that most of the snail shells came from the edges of the well. He thinks therefore that they may have come down on their own, attracted to the water, but that seems unlikely, to me. Tiles (pan and cover): 4=2.0 kg | |
Context Pottery: | Fineware. Classical, plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .Fish plate; Fineware. kantharos. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. unguentarium. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. saucer. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Hellenistic, mortar. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. miniature cup. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora lid. 1 complete profile. (saved to lot) .Italian?; Fineware. saucer. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .red fabric; Fineware. Classical, lekanis. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .with miltos; Fineware. Campana A, dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Hellenistic, amphora. 1 rim. 2 handles. (saved to lot) .Corinthian B, late type, should be inventoried; Fineware. moldmade bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .Egg & dart pattern; Coarseware. Knidian, amphora. 1 rim. 2 handles. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Hellenistic, stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .unflanged; Fineware. echinus bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Roman, stewpot. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Roman, baking pan. (saved to lot) .joins with fragment from context 83; Cooking ware. Hellenistic, lid. 6 rims. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Hellenistic, casserole. (saved to lot) . | |
Pottery Summary: | 13 frag(s) 0.005 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
49 frag(s) 3.17 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
41 frag(s) 0.08 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
Context Artifacts: | bronze nail 2 (saved to lot); iron, lump, 1 (saved to lot); lead, strip, 2 (saved to lot); Tile, painted, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail frag, 12 (saved to lot); bone, unidentified, 35 (saved to lot); Iron, nail, 25 (saved to lot); bone, unid, 3 (saved to lot); pottery, sherds, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail, 1, length = 0.852m (saved to lot); chalk white 1 (saved to lot); Tile, laconian, painted, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, sphere, 1 (saved to lot); shell, land snail, 465 = 1.46kg (unwashed) (saved to lot); Tile, pan, 4 (saved to lot); Tile, pan, 7 (saved to lot); bone, unid, 38 (saved to lot); lead, key, 1 (saved to lot); lead, sheet, 3 (saved to lot); bronze tack head 1 (saved to lot); Pithos, archaic-Hellenistic, rim, 1 (saved to lot); tile, pan, burnt? 1 (saved to lot); wall plaster blue 1 (saved to lot); tile pan 9 = 0.08kg (saved to lot) | |
Period: | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | |
Chronology: | npd | |
Grid: | 327.8-327.1E, 1085.25-1086.05N | |
XMin: | 327.1 | |
XMax: | 327.8 | |
YMin: | 1085.25 | |
YMax: | 1086.05 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
Masl: | 75.93-76.18m. | |
References: | Object: C 2015 45 Object: C 2015 64 Coin: 2015 283 Coin: 2015 295 |