Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 593

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 593
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Cleaning of Northern half of Room 2
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		593
Date:		2015/04/21
Lot:		Lot 2015-002
Stratum:		Inclusions all angular: with small ceramics, glass (including tesserae), small worked marble pieces, some charcoal, tile fragments, coarse pebbles. Total inclusions 40%; most inclusions are medium sized with some larger tile pieces up to 0.1 m long.
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the W. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		It is unclear if this is an uneven filoor or a result of powerwashing and walking over the area for the restoration of walls 556 and 557. The surface is uneven and slopes up gently to the East. Cut coins were found in the sieve as well as a whole coin (coin 9, 10, and 11). Note on the reconstruction: Since the 2014 excavation in Room 2, Walls 556, 557, 558, 559 have been reconstructed. The reconstruction of these walls required a construction trench c. 20 cm wide on the inside of the walls around the room. A lip of concrete formed at the base of these trenches and at the bottom of the previously excavated pits; although the construction trenches did go deeper as seen in the geotextiles present under wall 5556 in the profile of context 620. The construction trenches for walls 556 and 557 were encountered or bordered many contexts in the 2015 excavations. Later note: Coin 10 is a pendant (now MF-2015-3). Photo: 401 3/06/2015 (L. Kennedy R. Valente) Animal bones: pig, sheep/goat, possible bovid, 1.22 kg, all thrown.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. aegean sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), plate. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), pitcher. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Roman15 bodysherds. ; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), plate. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Byzantine7 bodysherds. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slip and glazed painted, bowl. 2 rims. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Frankish5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. 11th century1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260), bowl. 1 rim. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. sgraffito III, bowl. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 2 rims. 9 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. measles, slipped slip painted sgraffito (1140-1160), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100)48 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matt painted, pitcher. 2 rims. 4 handles. 19 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		121 frag(s) 0.75 kg. (80% saved) fineware.
		692 frag(s) 4.92 kg. (4% saved) coarseware.
		146 frag(s) 1.15 kg. (1% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		Marble table rim 1, bs 2 (saved to lot); Glass clear green Frankish beaker with blue thread, rim 1; Crucible bs 1 (saved to lot); Bronze strip 1; iron nail round shank 2, square shank 2 (1 comp H. 0.067); iron arrow head 1 L. 0.058; Glass clear green 5 bs, 1 rim, olive green bs 1, base 1; Ceramic waster 2; charcoal 7; Bronze belt buckle attachment hinge? 1; bronze lump 1; Glass clear blue tessera 2, W. 0.009
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		1260-1280
Grid:		119.27-116.57E, 1065-1066.5N
XMin:		116.57
XMax:		119.27
YMin:		1065
YMax:		1066.5
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.8-85m.
References:		Image: digital 2015 0401 Object: MF 2015 3 Coin: 2015 9 Coin: 2015 10 Coin: 2015 11