Corinth Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 1027
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Temple E, Southeast, context 1027
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Context Type:   Skeleton
Title:   Bone Jumble Beside and Under Ske 1025
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1110
Context:   1027
Date:   2016/06/10
Notes:   This bone jumble was exposed during the course of exposing the primary inhumation (1025) in Grave 2016-09. The visible portion was located next to the right lower limb, to the south in the boundaries of the grave. The bones in the juble visible prior to the removal of inhumation 1025 were two femora, a scarum, a clavicle, a vertebra, and a cranial fragment. Upon the removal of inhumation 1025, the jumble was futher exposed and this revealed that the jumble extended to a greater depth as well as over to the north under where the lower limbs of the inhumation were. Not many disarticulated bones were found on top of inhumation 1025. Thus, it appears that instead of removing the bones of previous burials, those burying the individual moved those burials to the east end and placed the new inhumation on top of the disarticulated bones.
2016/06/13 [D. Smotherman]
More bones of the jumble were recovered on 06/13, both to the side of the pirmary burial (1025) and underneath it. This jumble included many ribs and vertebrae, part of the vertebrae were in their correct positions as if articulated, but the ribs were nearby and not in their anatomical positions.
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   late 13th
Grid:   127.8-127.4E, 1069.65-1069.8N
XMin:   127.4
XMax:   127.8
YMin:   1069.65
YMax:   1069.8
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.48-84.8m.
References:   Images (4)