Corinth Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 679
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Temple E, Southeast, context 679
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Title:   Rubbly Deposit in NW corner of Rm 9
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1109
Context:   679
Date:   2015/05/06
Lot:   Lot 2015-008
Stratum:   70% with rare angular cobbles, few medium angular tile pieces, many angular tabular, platy pebbles, some fine angular, subrounded pebbles
Description:   The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is clayey sand.
Notes:   Photos 578-579
Irregularly shaped deposit in the NW corner of the room, had a level surface, and probably represents part of a working surface of dumped fill. The fill had three coins. Coin 93 (Byzantine), 94 (illegible), 95 (Frankish) (all from sieve)
3/06/2015 (L. Kennedy, R. Valente)
Animal bones: bovid, sheep/goat, oyster, limpet, 1.88 kg, all thrown.
Context Pottery:   Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matt painted, pitcher. 4 handles. 18 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late painted sgraffito, bowl. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted, no overglaze, bowl. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted no over glaze1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. maiolica2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .unidenfied,; Coarseware. bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:   87 frag(s) 0.7 kg. (14% saved) fineware.
    408 frag(s) 3.47 kg. (6% saved) coarseware.
    95 frag(s) 0.65 kg. (1% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   fragment of black and white pebble mosaic with mortar (L. 0.089, W. 0.072, D. 0.046); iron nail square shaft with head 3, rounded shaft 1, slag 2 (one very large); glass clear colorless bs 4 (two with knobs as MF-14171 and one of those with glass trail), blue green bs 1; crucible, fragment 1
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   Late 13th to early 14th century
Grid:   129.12-126.85E, 1084.28-1086.42N
XMin:   126.85
XMax:   129.12
YMin:   1084.28
YMax:   1086.42
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.76-84.95m.
References:   Image: digital 2015 0578
Image: digital 2015 0579
Coin: 2015 93
Coin: 2015 94
Coin: 2015 95