Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 1024

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 1024
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Context Type:		Deposit
Title:		Fill beneath Structure 1016 in Grave 2016-09
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1110
Context:		1024
Date:		2016/06/10
Stratum:		fine and medium subangular, tabular pebbles, coarse subangular and angular, spherical and tabular pebbles, lime chunks
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the E. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silty clay.
Notes:		We removed the tile covering, structure 1016, in the west end of the burial, which revealed a worked stone laid parallel to the direction of the tomb, a tile perpendicular to it on the west side. In the space created by these, we exposed a skull. The size of the cranium suggests a juvenile. (Later note: after the skull was further exposed, it became obvious that it was from an older adult individual, not a juvenile). Another tile is situated parallel to the stone and on the south side of the cranium. In proceeding east from the skull, a flat lying til is appearing. The right humerus of the child is on top of the tile. The tile is concave and similar to the smaller tiles already observed in structure 1016 (the more yellowy tiles with grooves running parallel). The right cheek of the skull (zygomatic) is resting against this flat lying, concave tile. This tile is in line with a stone block lying to the east of it. This block was observed in the exposure of the east side of structure 1016. Upon further observation, the long bone resting on the concave tile is not articulated nor associated with the cranium. It is from a juvenile, likely infant long bone (possibly a femur). After exposing the skull and the tile, we moved to the east end of the burial where w ehad previously exposed a foot in th eremoval of the east portion of structure 1016. Two articulated tibia (Rand L) have appeared. We also explored the fill to the west of the tiles around the cranium thinking there might be another burial, but only came down on a squarish tile fragment. As we exposed the primary inhumation indicated by the articulated tibia, we removed the stone in the middle of the east end (in line with the previously mentioned tile). It turned out to be a rectangular marble tile ca. 0.04m thick. It lay over the articulated right femur and revealed another disarticulated femur lying along side the R femur, but oriented in the opposite direction with the anterior side down. A sacrum overlaid this diarticulated femur. There is a medium worked stone laid on the south side of the tomb next to the proximal end of the right femur. There is a clavicle to the east of the sacrum also on top of the diarticulated femur. The primary inhumation is skeleton 1025. The body appears to have been slightly twisted to the north. The ankles are side by side basically touching, as are the knees. The femora are angled inwards as the proximity of the knees dictates. Thus, the body is not twisted, but the legs are slightly rotated inwards. 2016/06/03 [D. Smotherman] At the west edn of this fill, a piece of wood was found. Conservation was called to remove it. Nicol covered the wood and surrounding soil in plaster and will micro-excavate it in the lab. This is the second piece of wood excavated in this area (albeit at different levels and contexts) in this general area. The other was above the tile covering of this grave (Context 1020). After the removal of the wood, the rest of context 1024 was finished. The final scraping revealed a lime plaster surface that may represent a floor level of the church, even ealier than that of Context 1029. What may be the same surface is also apparent at the bottom of Grave 2016-07. Sanders suggests that this low floor (at an elevation of 84.48) would represent the construction surface of the church, which was also encounted at the bottom of Grave3 2016-07 this season and in the corridor north of the church in 2015 (Context 640 note, elevation 84.617)
Context Pottery:		Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. matt painted, table amphora. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		28 frag(s) 0.09 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		171 frag(s) 1.31 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		53 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron sheet fragment 1; glass clear greenish bs 1; glass (paste?) dark lump 1; tessera white stone 1; glass clear? Color not observable bs 1, rim 1, handle 1; charcoal 7; iron nails square shaft complete 6 (L 0.055, 0.061, 0.074, 0.049, 0.051, 0.064), incomplete 8; roof tile fragment 1; glass clear blueish bs 1; glass clear colorless bs 1; bone 4
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		late 13th c.
Grid:		126.6-124.05E, 1068.4-1068.95N
XMin:		124.05
XMax:		126.6
YMin:		1068.4
YMax:		1068.95
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.48-84.87m.
References:		Images (5)