Corinth Basket Temple E, Southeast, context 898

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Temple E, Southeast, context 898
Area:		Temple E, Southeast
Title:		Well Fill, 7th level, Rm 9
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1109
Context:		898
Date:		2015/06/19
Lot:		Lot 2015-044
Stratum:		15% inclusions. Tile, marble chunks (including large pieces), boulders, ceramics (large pieces)
Description:		The soil color is light yellowish grey. The soil compaction is stongly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty clay.
Notes:		Change in contexts at midmorning, while working through a backlog of buckets at the sieve. Thanassis reports a change in soil, to fill that is softer, whiter, and with fewer stone inclusions. Greater concentration of pottery fragments than some earlier contexts (1 full bucket after 20 buckets of soil). Though Thanassis reported a change in color and softness of soil, that coming out in buckets looks about the same- large, hard chunks that must be broken with a pick, greenish grey, with reddish portions. Lots of pieces of marble in this context (5-20cm), all thrown. Coin 628- sieve LN: AMS 26/6/15 - Coin 628 was actually two coins stuck together. Second was given number 2015-636. 24/06/2015 Larkin Kennedy, Rossana Valente Animal bones all kep in lot 2015-44 (1.58 kg).
Context Pottery:		Fineware. glaze painted III green and brown III, dish. 5 rims. 10 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted basin rim, basin. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .wave pattern; Fineware. sgraffito I, slipped painted (1160-1180)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. basin1 rim. (saved to lot) .stabbed decoration; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), lamp. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted table amphora8 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .fish pattern; Coarseware. basin1 rim. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 4 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .with flange; Cooking ware. triangular mug3 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. painted sgraffito1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .joining context 904; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, pitcher. 2 handles. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		44 frag(s) 0.93 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		242 frag(s) 8.83 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		22 frag(s) 0.37 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		iron nail square shank 2 (saved to lot); charcoal 15 (saved to lot)
Period:		Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:		second half 12th c.
Grid:		131.9-130.18E, 1081.13-1082.85N
XMin:		130.18
XMax:		131.9
YMin:		1081.13
YMax:		1082.85
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		80.89-81.2m.
References:		Object: C 2015 67 Coin: 2015 628 Coin: 2015 636