Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Basket | |
Name: | Temple E, Southeast, context 948 | |
Area: | Temple E, Southeast | |
Context Type: | deposit | |
Title: | Foundation Deposit for Altar Base | |
Category: | Deposit | |
Notebook: | 1110 | |
Context: | 948 | |
Date: | 2016/05/11 | |
Stratum: | Soil included pottery, fine and medium pebbles, and glass. | |
Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silty clay. | |
Notes: | The foundation trench for the altar base cuts the depost context around the base, so it was excavated before the level coulbe be taken down further between the nave and the apse. Coin 140 found on S side of the trench at N1071.7 E 129.65 H 85.403 Coin 141 found at NE corner of the trench at N 1072.85 E 129.8 H 85.237 Animal bone found put with thrown pottery. | |
Context Pottery: | Fineware. white ware plain, mug. 1 handle. ; Fineware. preroman9 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Roman9 bodysherds. | |
Pottery Summary: | 20 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
235 frag(s) 1.76 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
51 frag(s) 0.32 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
Context Artifacts: | glass clear greenish bs 2; glass clear bluish bs 3; glass clear colorless bs 2 | |
Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
Grid: | 130.2-128.9E, 1071.6-1073N | |
XMin: | 128.9 | |
XMax: | 130.2 | |
YMin: | 1071.6 | |
YMax: | 1073 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
Masl: | 85.241-85.51m. | |
References: | Image: digital 2016 0358 Image: digital 2016 0362 Image: digital 2016 0371 Coin: 2016 140 Coin: 2016 141 |