| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 756 | |
| Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
| Title: | Fill in cut north of pit 9 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1109 | |
| Context: | 756 | |
| Date: | 2015/05/14 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2015-031 | |
| Stratum: | inclusions: 10% pottery, bone, shells, cobbles (angular tabular), bone, charcoal | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | Context 756 is fill in the cut just north of pit 9, which was clearly outlined before we started digging in this room. We have removed all of the layers overlaying the clay surface, but this context fills a cut into the clay surface, so we are excavating it first. It likely contains a grave, which will require the attention of James and Elina. While digging a first pass, Kostas turned up a large, flat-lying tile - likely a covering for the grave. We excavated all around the first tile - which lies at the southern end of the cut, and found another tile lying perpendicular to the first one and slanting down to the north. This second tile is lower than the first. There is a lot of rock in the fill above the grave. After uncovering most of the skeleton, we realized that the two tiles are actually just one broken tile and placed in the grave, one covering the skull, one covering the torso. The skull was also bordered on either side by rocks and another smaller tile - propping it up so that it faced upwards. The grave has been assigned number 2015-05. The tiles and stones around the skull are structure 758. 3/06/2015 (L. Kennedy, R. Valente) Animal bones: pig, land snail, fish, sheep/goat, 1.2 kg, all thrown. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .painted; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. (saved to lot) .no overglaze; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300)1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. green and brown painted, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .nonjoining with context 747; Coarseware. matte painted, pitcher. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ; Fineware. other glazed20 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 32 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (88% saved) fineware. | |
| 178 frag(s) 0.56 kg. (5% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 54 frag(s) 0.03 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless yellowish 2; bronze angled probe with attachment 1; iron nail with square shank 4; iron nail head 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | last quarter of 13th | |
| Grid: | 119.5-119.1E, 1082.05-1083.1N | |
| XMin: | 119.1 | |
| XMax: | 119.5 | |
| YMin: | 1082.05 | |
| YMax: | 1083.1 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.28m. | |
| References: | Images (5) Object: MF 2015 41 |
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