Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 153

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 153
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Context Type:		deposit
Title:		Abraded and/or sub-surface beneath Context 140
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1108
Context:		153
Date:		2014/04/23
Lot:		Lot 2014-010
Stratum:		Inclusions: pebbles to cobbles (subangular, 10%), ceramics (5%), bone and shell (2%, large fragments).
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		Context 153 is a layer of debris or probable sub-floor in Room 8 Unit II. Initially we suspected that this debris remained from a deposit overlying the floor revealed in the S portion of the room in Context 140 and excavated in Context 168. Beneath this debris some patches of probable floor were discovered but it was highly abraded and in general not preserved. Particularly in the NW, the soil remained rich in inclusions including stones, pottery, and bone. It therefore seems likely that this context represents a sub-surface for the floor preserved in the S part of the room. During the excavation of this unit, a strip of softer soil running parallel to the E wall of the room (Context 155) was revealed, and was later shown to continue to the S under the floor excavated in Context 168. It may be a foundation trench for this wall. We also revealed a floor-like surface running into the depression (Context 162). Because this was originally interpreted as a sunken floor, we decided to excavate inside the depression, anticipating that the sub-surface would continue into this area. It did not; rather, it was a pit.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. frit, plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .white; Fineware. Byzantine55 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .matt-painted; Coarseware. stamnos. 1 rim. 15 handles. 50 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .matt-painted; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), pitcher. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .very glossy glaze; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Roman10 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. folded3 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. basin. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .matt-painted; Fineware. pre-Byz3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. light on dark I, slip painted (1100-1125), chafing dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. sgraffito II, slipped painted (1200-1260), plate. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. sgraffito IV (1300-1400), bowl. 1 rim. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		104 frag(s) 0.85 kg. (88% saved) fineware.
		1188 frag(s) 11.05 kg. (6% saved) coarseware.
		149 frag(s) 1.22 kg. (3% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass clear brown, bs, 1; glass clear colorless, prunted beaker, base, 1, bs, 1; bronze, strip, 2; glass clear bluish, cylinder bead, 1, Diam. 0.014; glass clear, floor of glass-blower's basin, as MF 2000-17, 1; glass clear colorless, rim, 1, bs, 4; iron, slag, 3; iron, nail, 2, shank, 2; bronze, buckle, L. 0.034, W. 0.022, similar to MF 3984, 1; glass clear yellowish, bs, 1; iron, lump, 10
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		Late 13th-early 14th c.
Grid:		126.04-123.5E, 1081.41-1085.81N
XMin:		123.5
XMax:		126.04
YMin:		1081.41
YMax:		1085.81
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.87-84.97m.