Locus TRA0701-005 [permalink]
Type
Locus
In excavation trench
Trench A-07-01
Logical part of
Loci
Published as
Rifeetal2022, pp. 28-29
Contents of Unit
BUILDING MATERIALS. Stone (2 frr., 0.01 kg): 2 Pentelic or gray variant (p.L. 0.049, Th. 0.008; p.L. 0.109, Th. 0.027). Mortar/plaster: very few, disintegrated, not quantified. Tile/brick: 139 frr., 8.06 kg.
Contents of Unit
MODERN DEBRIS. 1 fr. L-shaped metal: bracket?
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POTTERY. Byzantine (1 fr., 0.008 kg): 1 body: bowl, interior has white slip and clear glaze (12th-13th century).
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POTTERY. Greek (16 frr., 0.052 kg): 11 Corinthian fine ware (3 Archaic–Classical cup bases; 4 open-shape body; 1 open-shape rim; 1 miniature kantharos handle; 2 cup handles), 1 Attic fine ware (Classical–Hellenistic cup rim), 1 gray ware (open-shape rim), 1 Corinthian molded relief ware (Hellenistic imbricated bowl body), 1 Corinthian cooking ware (Hellenistic casserole lid knob), 1 Corinthian coarse ware (lekane body).
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Roman (801 frr., 14.06 kg): few table ware including ESA, Knidian gray-ware bowl, eastern thin-walled ware, African red slip; unslipped pitcher; mostly utilitarian; cooking ware; Campanian, Dressel 2-4, MRA3, MRA7, combed amphora.
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SMALL FINDS. Glass (5 frr.): 1 body, yellow, thin; 3 body, light blue (ribbed bowl); 2 body, bluish colorless.
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SMALL FINDS. Lithic: 1 fr. white pumice with abrasion from use.
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Metal: 5 total: 2 nonjoining frr. iron nails incl 1 shank, heavily corroded (Type VII/VIII; p.L. 0.064, Th. 0.005) and 1 shank, bent at right angle (Type X; p.L. 0.050, Th. 0.008); 4 small frr. iron, irregular.
Explanation of deposition
Byzantine-Post-Byzantine colluvium on south ridge.
In Deposit or Stratum
Koutsongila Stratum A3
Location in unit
Upper level across west trench.
Uninventoried Type Present
Brick
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Byzantine Glazed Pottery
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Dressel 2-4 Unclassified
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Glass Ribbed Bowl
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Ground Stone Tool
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Knidian Gray Ware
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Metal, Unclassified
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Middle Roman Amphora 3
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Middle Roman Amphora 7
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Modern Debris
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Nail
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Pitcher or Jug
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Unclassified African Red Slip
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Unclassified Architectural Decoration
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Unclassified Cooking Ware
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Unclassified Eastern Sigillata A
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Unclassified Eastern Thin-Walled Ware
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Unclassified Glass
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Unclassified Late Antique Combed Amphora
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Unclassified Mortar/Plaster
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Unclassified Pottery
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Unclassified Utilitarian Ware