| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | South Stoa, context 71 | |
| Area: | South Stoa | |
| Context Type: | deposit | |
| Title: | Fill of Possible FT in East side of Wall 38 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1109 | |
| Context: | 71 | |
| Date: | 2015/05/21 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2015-067 | |
| Stratum: | 10% coarse pebbles, some large carbon chunks (2%), med-lg sized pieces of bedrock (20%) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the S. The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | Softer than 80 and 81. The foundation trench is a lot thinner than originally thought, it cuts well on the east, and has bedrock at the bottom. It cuts the context ______ on the east. Within the fill is some pottery and charcoal. The foundation trench has an irregular eastern edge. We left a martyr on the southern edge to protect the Roman bench. The foundation trench clearly cuts into clay on the eastern side - context _____. The charcoal is especially prevalent on the southern part of the fill. The dept of the foundation trench also varies. To the north, it is shallower ( ca. 10cm), presumably due to the bedrock. To the south, the foundation trench gets very deep (ca. 20cm). Bedrock was also revealed at the south end. There is a slight slope to the south. A dark brown soil was also revealed at the beddrock level. On the south, there is a clear cut into the bedrock. Med-cobble-sized rocks are embedded into the bottom of the foundation trench, though are still apart from the fill. These rocks are bedrock chunks. These continue deep into the foundation trench. The foundation trench is much wider at its southern end, and very narrow in th emiddle. To the north the faoundation trench gets wider again. May 21: Less cobbles have come out of th enorth end, and there are less rocks in general and no pottery. The shallow bedrock in the center of the foundation trench turned out to just be compacted bedrock chunks. Presumably these chunks were created when they cut into the bedrock when digging the foundation trench. These chunks were then thrown back into the foundation trench as fill, along with a few tiles and some pottery. At the bottom of the foundation trench, the bedrock cut is visible, and so is the lower course of bloacks for the wall in line with these to the north (38). Here, the bedrock is only a few cm from the course, like at the north end of the room (cut 64). A one-piece kantharos sherd was found deep in the foundation trench between the bedrock and the wall on the deep north side (38). Two coins were found at the sieve. A third was found shortly after. A fourth was found shortly after that. The bottom of the foundation trench at the south end measures 0.49m, from the top of the wall (38). A fifth coin was found at the sieve. A hard rocky fill in the center of the foundation trench is preventing the continuation of excavating the foundation trench. To avoid any contamination from the context the foundation trench cuts into, we will close this context. 215L of soil was taken out before we closed the context. 22 bedrock chunks weighing 26.3kg were taken from the foundation trench. This is a much higher and isolated pocket of rubble and redeposited bedrock in the center of the foundation trench that was carefully avoided due to its hardness until the end of the context there is therefore no reason to believe there was any contamination of the rest of the fill of the foundation trench. August 2, 2015 (S.J.): It is now clear that this is not a foundation trench, but rather fill packed against the side of wall 38. The true foundation trench was below it in context 111. Rather than cutting the fills to the east, it was earlier than them and because of its compactness survived through later ER renovations. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. semi glazed bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. trefoil mouth oinochoe. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Archaic, lekane. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. corinthian b amphora. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .foot 1; Fineware. kotyle. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. casserole. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. articulate kantharos. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Hellenistic, lid. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. echinus bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. one handled cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. cyma kantharos. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. corinthian a amphora. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 59 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 51 frag(s) 1 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 46 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron, nail frag, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail head, 1 (saved to lot); shell, patella, 2 (saved to lot); Plaster, white, 1 (saved to lot); shell, flesh eater, 4 (saved to lot); shell, venus, 2 (saved to lot); bone, unid, 21 and bone unid 22 = 0.1kg (saved to lot); shell, cardia, 15 (saved to lot); lead, nail frag, 1 (saved to lot); shell, landsnail, 8 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Hellenistic | |
| Chronology: | late 3rd-early 2nd c. BC | |
| Grid: | 327.6-326.5E, 1079.6-1081.7N | |
| XMin: | 326.5 | |
| XMax: | 327.6 | |
| YMin: | 1079.6 | |
| YMax: | 1081.7 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 81.41m. | |
| References: | Images (5) Coins (7) |
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