| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 140 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Context Type: | deposit | |
| Title: | Fill Room 8, Unit II (First Pass) - Frankish floor | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 140 | |
| Date: | 2014/04/23 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2014-012 | |
| Stratum: | Color is light grayish-reddish brown. Inclusions: pebbles to cobbles (subangular, 5%), ceramics (2%) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the NW. The soil color is light reddish mixed. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Context 140 is a ca. 5cm pass through the fill (sub-floor?) of Room 8 of Unit II thru the majority of the room, with the exception of the depression and Context 149. After a light cleaning (Context 119), some soil changes (in color and inclusions) were visible at the surface. We determined that most of these (exceptions above) were part of the same mixed fill, though we had expected a pit SE of the depression in the N-central part of the room (general area on plan). Particularly at the SE corner of the room, a probably floor was detected with a whitish, clayey finish (treated with lime or fugitive plaster?). Also in this area were found a bronze crochet hook and a ring, further suggesting the intact quality of the surface in this area. A coin was also recovered from the sive from the soil in this area (2014-59). This surface is patchily preserved across the S up to the edge of what may be a foundation or robbing trench, excavated Context 151, ca. 25 cm from the S wall (Wall 16 NB 845; Context 156). Along the W wall (Wall 13 NB 877; Context 157) is an area of harder soil with cobble inclusions that may be a bench (ca. 33-38 cm from wall). Just S of the depression and to the W a high number of inclusions suggests a more choppy surface, if it is one, and the whiter clay surface revealed at the S was fugitive all the way to the N wall (Wall 14 NB 877; Context 154). An additional coin (2014-60) was found in the sieve from this area. In general, then, the surface was primarily revealed at the S, with patches preserved at the E and N of the depression. We closed the unit after tracing the extent of the white, clayey surface, as well as the more choppy, debris-rich surface/subsurface found to the N. The more choppy possible surface was determined to overlie the white, clayey surface, and we began to remove it in Context 153. Later Notes (29/4/14): After a close reading of NB 877 and 845 (NB 877 B91-93, 114, 123, 149, and NB 845 plan p. 53), we believe that Context 140 is the excavation of the so-called "Frankish floor" of Room 8. When originally discovered, it was a well-preserved surface, which was left unexcavated and exposed since 1995. The top elevations of this surface are all around 85.00, which corresponds well with the top elevations of Context 140. This floor was covered by tile fall and destruction debris, some of which may have been left and excavated out of sequence in Context 149. The dates given by the earlier excavators for this tile and destruction debris are late 13th c. We have dated Context 140, which must predate the destruction, by pottery to the 14th c. The crochet hook mentioned above was identified while dirty, and has proved to be a bronze wire. Significant finds from this context include a bone die (MF 2014-6) and a bronze weight (MF 2014-5). | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. painted sgraffito, bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .matt-painted; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .matt-painted; Fineware. venetto ware, dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .upturned rim; Coarseware. stamnos. 2 rims. 5 handles. 21 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .matt-painted; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100)50 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Pre-Medieval7 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .very glossy glaze; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260)1 rim. (saved to lot) .no overglaze; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. vertical folded1 rim. (saved to lot) .joining 153; Fineware. Byzantine29 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), bowl. 2 rims. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. (saved to lot) .13th c., added green glaze paint; Fineware. sgraffito IV (1300-1400)3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Pre-Roman14 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 128 frag(s) 0.77 kg. (84% saved) fineware. | |
| 863 frag(s) 4.93 kg. (4% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 227 frag(s) 1.21 kg. (1% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless, prunted beaker, bs, 1; iron, nails, square shank, 4, heads, 2, shanks, 3; glass clear greenish, cup base, as MF 5650, bs, 2; iron, iron strip folded over bronze, 1; bronze, lump, 1; bone, die, L. 0.006, W. 0.006, D. 0.006, 1 (INV); bronze, pierced strip, 1; plaster, white, 4; bronze, weight, Diam. 0.022, H. 0.005, Wt. 0.009, 1 (INV); bone, fish vertebra with hole in center, 1, Diam. 0.006; glass clear colorless, rim, 1; bronze, wire, 1; iron, crucible, 1; bronze, buckle, Diam. 0.012, identical to MF 2014-9, as Corinth XII 2222 (MF 1549), 1; bronze, ring, Diam. 0.026, 1; iron, lumps, 7 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 14th c. | |
| Grid: | 127.84-123.07E, 1078.58-1086.12N | |
| XMin: | 123.07 | |
| XMax: | 127.84 | |
| YMin: | 1078.58 | |
| YMax: | 1086.12 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.91-85.1m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2014 0172 Image: digital 2014 0173 Object: MF 2014 5 Object: MF 2014 6 Coin: 2014 59 Coin: 2014 60 |
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