Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 24

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 24
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Context Type:		deposit
Title:		Early Modern Road E. of E. Modern Wall
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1108
Context:		24
Date:		2014/04/09
Stratum:		Metalled pebbling, pot sherds, tiles, animal bones.
Description:		The soil color is dark brownish brown. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is well sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		On 9/4/14 we removed a modern pebbled, metalled road in the unexcavated baulk W. of room 5 and NW of the Frankish church's narthex in Unit 2, after removing contexts 17 and 18 above it. The road runs N/S and has a depression in the middle (also N/S), its lowest point approximately 90cm E. of the EM wall (TESE 11). The depression is probably caused by conditions below, although added traffic next to the wall (though not immediately adjacent) may be a contributing factor. It predates the lime pit which was cut into it. Although at an elevation of 86.40m at its highest point, much of the road was at a point closer to the lower point of 86.19m. The coin was found by pickman Marios after sieving had ceased. The road itself is a pebbly construction, probably an Ottoman town road visible on the 1829 map of Peytier. Contexts 17 and 18 represent later depositions on top of this surface, apparently either repairs or perhaps more likely as natural fill. Contexts 38 and 42 appear to be leveling fills used to created this flat surface whose N/S depression is probably a later occurrence (though perhaps a related development, as there appears to be no leveling fill in the center beneath context 24). The eastern half of this road surface was excavated in 1993 by Tom Brogan (NB 859 p. 22-23, 26) and the remainder later that season (ibid. 121-122). The part south of the previously excavated eastern half of the lime pit was excavated by Harris and Johnson in 1995 (NB 873 p. 51 - it is called a "floor(?)").
Context Pottery:		Fineware. pre-Roman14 bodysherds. ; Fineware. pre-Byzantine12 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Frankish matte-painted, stamnos. 1 rim. 1 handle. 20 bodysherds. ; Fineware. veneto, dish. 1 bodysherd. Incised lines; Fineware. coarse incised, slipped style V (1200-1220), plate. 1 bodysherd. Split palmette.; Coarseware. Frankish, bowl. 1 rim. ; Plainware. ; Fineware. pre-Frankish25 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 rim. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 2 rims. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), dish. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. ; Plainware. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. no overglaze.; Fineware. aegean sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		61 frag(s) 0.35 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		305 frag(s) 3.3 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		48 frag(s) 0.45 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		Marble revetment (3); Ceramic waster (1) (saved to lot); Iron, blade?, 1
Period:		Turkish II (1715-1831 AD)
Chronology:		Late 18th/ early 19th c.
Grid:		115.15-111.75E, 1075.9-1080.1N
XMin:		111.75
XMax:		115.15
YMin:		1075.9
YMax:		1080.1
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		86.23-86.4m.
References:		Image: digital 2014 0039 Coin: 2014 6