Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 603

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 603
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Fill in North of Room 2 over floor
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		603
Date:		2015/04/22
Stratum:		Inclusions of medium, angular pebbles, small terracotta pieces, small white lime inclusions (not very common when compared to other inclusions - sample of these taken to museum)
Description:		The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		603 is a firm fill that is dark and moist. There are rocks, cobble-sized, along with medium-sized angular pebbles, terracotta pieces, fragments of bone, glass, and pottery. As Thanassis took down Context 603 with a pick, a beaten-earth floor level and a small portion of the foudnation trench for Wall 556 were revealed. The trowel was used only at the lowest level of context 603, but the main portion of the xcavation was done with the pick. Part of Context 603 extned into a trench excavated for Wall 557 (Context 584, 2014) and under Wall 557 itself. In the NE part of the room another level of fill is visible above the floor, which will be excavated next. Excavated over the course of two days: the 21st and the 22nd. Coins 13, 14, 15 found in sieve for eastern portion of context; coin 17 in the sieve for the wester portion of the context; coin 16 has an exact findspot, found by Thanassis: 118.08 E, 1065.23 N, 84.76 H. Photo: 413 02/06/2015 (L Kennedy): Animal bones: oyster, limpet, fish + small scraps of terrestrial animal bone, 0.26 kg, all thrown.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. champs, bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. frankish sgraffito1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. 1 bodysherd. vertical rim; Fineware. pre-roman18 bodysherds. ; Fineware. frankish sgraffito, bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. pre-byzantine12 bodysherds. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 4 rims. 14 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 3 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		60 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		401 frag(s) 2.7 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		264 frag(s) 1.2 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron nail head; bronze lumps 2; bone needle 1 (0.028) as MF 7956; charcoal 2; marble revetment 1; iron nails heads 4 (1 with shaft 0.033), round shaft 2, parts of found shafts 4, slag 1; glass clear thick white bs 1 (0.009), white 6 bs, green beaker rim (0.054) 1, green bs 6, colorless 3, olive green 3
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		mid 13th century
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:		84.71-84.8m.
References:		Image: digital 2015 0413 Coins (5)