| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 3 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Cleaning - NB 864 Unit II Room 6 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 3 | |
| Date: | 2014/04/07 | |
| Stratum: | Very dry, fine sediment accumulated since the last excavation in 1996 | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is uneven. The soil color is dark brownish grey. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We opened this context to remove surface debris that had accumulated over our excavation area since it was last excavated in 1996 (see NB 864; previous excavations took place in the area in 1992--NB 850 and 854). We focused our cleaning efforts on Unit II Room 6--a narrow room running N-S between NB 864 Wall 13 (now Context 58) at the W and the robbed NB 864 Wall 11 (now Context 59) at the E. The areas E of the robbing trench of Wall 11, W of Wall 13, and the S-most portion of the room, adjacent to and N of the narthex of the church, remain largely uncleaned. The sides and bottoms of the previously excavated grave pits and the robbing trench of Wall 11 were scraped with a trowel and swept with a hand broom. In the N part of Room 6, we scraped down about 2cm to reveal what appears to be a white clayey floor surface, sloping down slightly to the S. This surface ends at N 1079.5, 3m S of the N excavation limit (arbitrary line S of large pit--see plan). S of this point, where previous excavations have gone deeper, the boundaries with underlying contexts were less sharp. Two graves were revealed by the cleaning. One, now Grave 2014-01 filled by Context 13, is a small pit covered with tile set N-S against Wall 13, just S of the pit of Grave 1996-4. The second is a pit running E-W south of the pit of grave 1996-1. These graves may be referred to in NB 864 among the burials discovered but left unexcavated in 1996. A human tooth was found in the soil directly above the truncated skull of the second of these two graves and is most likely associated with that skeleton. Following this cleaning, we began to excavate these two burials as Context 13 (adjacent to and E of NB 864 Wall 13/Context 58) and Context 71 (adjacent to and S of Grave 1996-1). | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. 13th c.35 bodysherds. ; Fineware. maiolica, bowl. (saved to lot) .green painted; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. no overglaze, sgrafitto; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 43 frag(s) 0.35 kg. (2% saved) fineware. | |
| 276 frag(s) 1.69 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 52 frag(s) 0.35 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron, nail, square shank, 1; glass clear yellow, prunted beaker bs, 1; glass clear colorless, goblet stem bs, 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 14th c. | |
| Grid: | 122.5-117.47E, 1075.25-1082.5N | |
| XMin: | 117.47 | |
| XMax: | 122.5 | |
| YMin: | 1075.25 | |
| YMax: | 1082.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.89-85.44m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2014 0008 Image: digital 2014 0009 |
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