| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 577 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Floor fill S of robbing trench for wall 557 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1108 | |
| Context: | 577 | |
| Date: | 2014/06/20 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2014-052 | |
| Stratum: | 35% small-medium pebbles, angular and sub-rounded; ceramic sherds, glass, coins | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the W. The soil color is light brownish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | This is a packed walking surface - a layer of floor fill - that is directly s of the robbing trench for the n portion of E wall 557 of Room 2, Unit 2. The S boundary for this context has been chosen arbitrarily - we have truncated the full extent of this context in order to allow us to excavate a smaller, select portion of this room and limited our excavation to the N portion of unit 2 room 2 after the excavatin of the large (ca. 1.8 m deep) pit in the cneter of the room as it is the last day of the 2014 season. The shifts between layers of floor fill are sharp due to the nature of their changes both in percentage and type of inclusions and color. Update: we decided to extend our area of excavation to the east of the large pit (defined by cut 574) b/c taking up context 577 revealed the foundation trench for wall 557 in order to be able to dig the entire foundation trench. Update: This is a deposit for a floor that covers most of room 2 and comprises 4 different deposits (577, 579, 573, 576) that, while dug separately, have been equated together as one floor because they are all at relatively similar elevations and are all approximately the same thickness, between 0.07 and 0.09 m. We differentiated these different contexts on the basis of color; however, we now suspect that these different colors are the result of the mottled nature of the deposits' composition. All of these deposits have approximately the same number and percentages of inclusions as well as the same compaction and the pottery compositions are roughly contemporary and date to the late 13th to early 14th century. Therefore, we see these four contexts as one contemporary floor deposit. Animal bones, 0.1 kg, saved in LOT 2014-52. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 rim. glazed cooking; Coarseware. matte painted, stamnos. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), plate. 1 rim. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 12 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 46 frag(s) 0.25 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 16 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless, bs, 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 13th/early 14th c. | |
| Grid: | 119.55-118.7E, 1064.9-1065.85N | |
| XMin: | 118.7 | |
| XMax: | 119.55 | |
| YMin: | 1064.9 | |
| YMax: | 1065.85 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85-85.09m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2014 0817 Image: digital 2014 0818 Image: digital 2014 0819 |