| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 702 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | red clayey layer in sectioned area | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1109 | |
| Context: | 702 | |
| Date: | 2015/05/08 | |
| Stratum: | inclusions: 2-5% Pottery, Bone, Pebbles and occasional Cobbles and Small Boulders (ang. and sub-round) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | Excavated by W. Bennett. This morning, Guy decided to section a part of the trench (between 126-127 E). The workmen had become confused at what they were digging and could not really see/feel the difference between several supposedly different contexts. There had often been disagreement between Thanassis and Kostas before Lucas sprained his ankle over how the trench looked and felt, but under the pebbly road-like surface, the soils became hard and difficult to tell apart, often also rather sterile. Guy wants to know how far down the lower stones of the N wall of the church go before we leave this area, so we sectioned off a 1 m wide area to work our way through these difficult layers more quickly (and hopefully, easily!) Thanassis is working from S to N. He completed one pass. The red is much thinner at the N than at the S. He is making another S --> N pass. Some cobbles are starting to appear in the N where the red layer was very thin. Thanassis is now coming down upon cobbles and small boulders throughout the context area. He is still removing the red though. Thanassis must have just been excavating timidly in the N on the first pass, because he is removing much more red on this second pass. The largest of the stones concentrate in the middle of the corrdior in this sectioned area. Context changed due to the appearance of cobble-and-small-bouder-sized stones and tile in the center of context. Still a red matrix though. 1\06\2015 (Larkin Kennedy, Rossana Valente) Animal bones: 0.06, all thrown. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. red figure, ?. showing chest and forearm male figure (put in envelope); Fineware. preroman3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. sgraffito II, slipped painted (1200-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 5 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 4 frag(s) 0.38 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 18 frag(s) 0.11 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | red figure with chest and right arm of male 1; obsidian, primary flake 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 12th century | |
| Grid: | 127-126E, 1076.1-1078.2N | |
| XMin: | 126 | |
| XMax: | 127 | |
| YMin: | 1076.1 | |
| YMax: | 1078.2 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.4-84.46m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2015 0603 Image: digital 2015 0604 |
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