| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 167 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Courtyard surface in NE corner, 3rd lens | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 167 | |
| Date: | 2014/04/24 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2014-018 | |
| Stratum: | 20% small to large angular and subrounded cobbles; tile and ceramic fragments; frequent bone; shells rare; carbon | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the E. The soil color is light brownish black. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We are removig the next courtyard suface that slopes to the east in the NE corner of the courtyard. This appears to be the surface that slopes into Wall II of Unit 2 Room 3, was filled by Deposit 158. It is aso the surface that 161 cuts into. Again in the north we are bounded by the south wall of Unit 2 Room A and B (Wall III) and the concrete strip left by the wall reconstruction. Its most characteristic feature is the high quantity of bones. Along the north edge by the south wall of Unit 2 there appears to be a hard packed surface revealed. As we remove more, it looks like we have reached the clayey leve found below 163 on the western edge of our excavation. At some point during the excavation the limits of this context became less clear. It no longer looked like a surface but began to look like fill in some areas. At first it looked like this was the surface into which 161 was cut, but now that is leass clear. Along the west part where the clayey surface was revealed, this clay was suddenly cut and it looked like 167 filled this cut as well. So perhaps 167 was not a surface but a fill in a deep cut. But as we looked at the scarp made by this cut it was clear that the fill went below the cut surface. Thus it became clear that 167 was very similar to what was used at an earlier phase to fill these cuts and the transition between them was very diffuse. Also scarps along the east showed that there was a layer of 167 below the exposed surface suggesting that 167 may not have been fully exposed before we begun to remove it. Thus it is very possible that we both dug a level out of sequence and over dug into another context. One of the worrisome features is that the hard clayey surface has a rectangular projection from what appears to be a circular cut otherwise. Since we are unclear on the relationship of this level with the others around it, we closed out this deposit and will move to the western part of our sectioned area where the relationships are more clear. Hopefully the removal of surfaces in the west will make what is occurring in the east a bit clearer. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. maiolica, bowl. 3 rims. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .green painted; Fineware. archaic maiolica, slipped (1270-1325), pitcher. 1 handle. 9 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. veneto ware, bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .sgraffito decoration; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .broad flaring; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. mid-13th c.20 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Medieval7 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 101 frag(s) 0.97 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 437 frag(s) 5.31 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 102 frag(s) 0.73 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless, rim, 3, bs, 3 (saved to lot); glass clear colorless, prunted beaker, bs, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, sheet, 3 (saved to lot); ceramic wasters, bs, 1, rim, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish blue, stemmed glass, as MF 267, stem, 1, base, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear olive with relief, bs, 2 (saved to lot); glass clear colorless with blue trail, bs, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, lump, 4 (saved to lot); glass clear green, prunted beaker, bs, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, wire, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear amber, bs, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail, square shank, 3, head with shank, 4 (saved to lot); glass clear green, bs, 7 (saved to lot); shell, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear blue, bs, 2 (saved to lot); glass clear yellowish, prunted beaker, bs, 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 14th | |
| Grid: | 108.13-105.64E, 1063.01-1064.92N | |
| XMin: | 105.64 | |
| XMax: | 108.13 | |
| YMin: | 1063.01 | |
| YMax: | 1064.92 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.44-85.71m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2014 0181 Image: digital 2014 0187 Image: digital 2014 0188 Object: C 2014 4 |
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