| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 32 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Fill of pit in NW corner of church | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 32 | |
| Date: | 2014/04/09 | |
| Stratum: | Mixed: dark brownish brown sandy silt, dark reddish brown clayey silt. Inclusions: 40% total; ceramic; stone (pebble to cobble, angular and irregular); shell; glass; plaster; charcoal; organic (roots and land snails). | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is uneven down to the N. It is mixed- see description. | |
| Notes: | Context 32 is a pit in NW corner of church nave observed in the S scarp of the robbing trench of the N wall during cleaning (context 2) as a high concentration of bones and ceramics. The cut for this (context 44) was difficult to detect initially and work ceased when it disappeared due to the highly distubed nature of the deposit caused by exposure of the scarp and upper levels since previous excavation of the area in 1990 (see NB 831 + NB 835). Work proceeded from the N edge of the scarp by trowel. A mixed soil matrix of losse, dark brownish brown sandy silt and more compact dark reddish brown clayey silt was highly disturbed due to bioturbation, seen in the numerous antihills, wormholes, and organic inclusions of roots and land snails. Inclusions of bone were found throughout the deposit, but were not found in a way that suggests that this pit was a grave pit or secondary burial. The mixed soil composition and inclusions of ceramics, glass, and plaster, including a red-painted plaster fragment that was collected along with the ceramics and glass, may suggest that this deposit is levelling fill for a floor in the church. Since the boundaries of this pit were difficult to detect given the mixed soil composition, however, the function of this pit remains unclear. Later notes: Review of previous excavation in this area (NB 835, Basket 53, pp. 97-8) shows that a pit was identified in this area but the basket was closed when human remains, including a skull, were uncovered, suggesting that a tomb was located there. This context may therefore represent a highly disturbed tomb (from robbing activity in the N wall) that was already partially excavated and so irregularly shaped, and why the fill is so mixed because of erosion and previous excavation. ELEVATIONS (Opening / Closing) SE: 85.44 m / 85.30 m SW: 85.38 m / 85.31 NW: 85.24 m / 85.28 NE: 85.39 m / 85.27 center: 85.32 m / 85.25 Bone saved as Bone LOT 2014-21 | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. pre-roman4 bodysherds. ; Plainware. pitcher. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .as C63-529; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. Roman3 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 9 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 88 frag(s) 0.5 kg. (2% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 17 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless, bs, 1; plaster, black and white, 1; glass clear colorless, rim, 1, as Jalame, cat. 404; marble green streaked, 1; glass clear blue, bs, 1; plaster, red, 2; tile, 27 | |
| Period: | Turkish I (1458-1680 AD) | |
| Grid: | 124.09-123.25E, 1073.96-1075.42N | |
| XMin: | 123.25 | |
| XMax: | 124.09 | |
| YMin: | 1073.96 | |
| YMax: | 1075.42 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.26-85.44m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2014 0024 Image: digital 2014 0026 Image: digital 2014 0044 |
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