Corinth Basket: Temple E, Southeast, context 685
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Temple E, Southeast, context 685
Area:   Temple E, Southeast
Title:   Hard Deposit in S. Section of Room 9
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1109
Context:   685
Date:   2015/05/06
Stratum:   35% with several fine and medium pebbles, a few angular tile pieces, and some small bones
Description:   The soil color is light brownish red. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey sand.
Notes:   * A post hole was below this context, but the fill of the post holde was placed with this context (cut = 689)
Photo 591
Context 685 was a very red surface in the western portion of the room. The two small pits (660 and 661) were cut into this surface that sloped inwards. It broke off with the pock in large pieces and was above another unevben reddish earthen surface with a slope inwards and had a small post hole cut into it.
01/06/2015 (larkinKennedy, Rossana Valente)
Animal bones: mostly bird, and sheep/goat, 0.33, all thrown.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260), bowl. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. late painted sgraffito, bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:   28 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    153 frag(s) 1.3 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    50 frag(s) 0.21 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   1 bone die well preserved with numbers still intact; glass clear colorless bs 2 (knobs as MF-14171); iron point (L. 0.039); shell 1; lump of bronze; glass tessera 1; bronze ring (outer diam. 0.016, inner diam. 0.010) as MF-7087; bronze spoon bowl (W. 0.016) 1 (as MF-2460)
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   Late 13th to early 14th century
Grid:   130.38-127.65E, 1083.95N
XMin:   127.65
XMax:   130.38
YMax:   1083.95
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.73-84.94m.
References:   Image: digital 2015 0591
Object: MF 2015 29