Locus TRA0804-002 [permalink]
Type
Locus
In excavation trench
Trench A-07/08/09-04
Logical part of
Loci
Published as
Rifeetal2022, pp. 35-36
Contents of Unit
LAMP. (9 frr., 0.031 kg): 1 Archaic-Classical Athentian body; 3 Broneer XXVII body; 4 Athenian early glazed: 1 discus (square), 1 shoulder (wavy lines), 1 handle, 1 base; 1 Late Roman Athenian imitation Asia Minor shoulder (wavy stalk and clusters?, cf. KL073, KL123, KL248).
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Byzantine (3 frr., 0.016 kg): 1 base: ring foot (est. Diam. 0.030), interior has white slip and yellow glaze (12th-13th century); 1 body; interior has white slip and yellow glaze (12th-13th century); 1 body: Sgraffito-ware bowl, interior has white slip and yellow glaze with uncertain circular design (mid-12th-early 13th century).
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Greek (49 frr., 0.272 kg): 24 Corinthian fine ware (4 Archaic-Classical cup rims; 1 plate rim; 1 bowl rim; 2 cup handles; 1 Hellenistic kantharos molded base; 1 Hellenistic plate/saucer base; 1 open base with rouletting; 10 open-shape body; 3 closed-shape body), 12 Attic fine ware (1 fish plate rim; 1 bowl/saltcellar rim; 1 cup rim; 1 skyphos base; 1 open-shape base; 6 open-shape body; 1 closed-shape body), 3 Corinthian molded relief ware (1 Hellenistic bowl rim with rectangles; 1 Hellenistic long-petal bowl body; 1 Hellenistic bowl body with spirals), 4 Corinthian coarse ware (1 lekane rim; 3 lekane body), 1 Attic coarse ware (lekane handle); 5 Corinthian A/A′ amph.
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Roman (3,737 frr., 39.43 kg): standard colluvial assemblage.
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Glass (22 frr.): 1 neck, yellowish green (short, narrow cylindrical neck: tubular unguentarium?); 1 body/base, light bluish green (small bowl with applied coil base, KM376); 1 body, yellowish greenish colorless (conical lamp or beaker with blue blobs, KM470); 1 body, yellowish greenish colorless (straight wall with body with applied opaque, dark blue blob: beaker or lamp; same as KM470?); 1 rim, light yellowish green (small, inwardly folded, tubular lip); 1 rim, light greenish yellow (outwardly folded, tubular lip); 1 rim, green (outwardly folded, tubular lip); 2 rim, light blue, thin (flaring with fire-polished lip); 1 rim, light blue (inwardly folded, tubular lip); 1 body, dark orangish (brownish) yellow; 1 body, green; 6 body, light blue; 1 body, bluish colorless, thick; 1 body, colorless, thin; 1 base, light green (folded, tubular ring base); 1 ring setting, dark to medium blue (oval, beveled, engraved magical amulet, KM190).
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Lithic: 1 obsidian medial segment of utilized blade (939).
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Metal: 6 total: 1 bronze finger ring (KM220); 1 lead strip: sinker, shim or patch? (KM212); 1 fr. bronze nail (Type I; KM191); 1 fr. bronze nail shank (p.L. 0.043, Th. shank 0.004); 1 fr. iron nail shank (p.L. 0.028, Th. shank 0.007); 1 fr. lead strip: patch, shim, or sinker? (p.L. 0.042, Th. 0.003).
Explanation of deposition
Uppermost colluvium and topsoil on south ridge.
In Deposit or Stratum
Koutsongila Stratum A4
Location in unit
Upper level across entire trench.
Uninventoried Type Present
Byzantine Glazed Pottery
Uninventoried Type Present
Byzantine Sgraffito
Uninventoried Type Present
Corinthian Type A Amphora
Uninventoried Type Present
Hellenistic Moldmade Bowl (“Megarian Bowl“)
Uninventoried Type Present
Unclassified Pottery
Linked to

KM190 (Early-Middle Roman Blue Glass-Paste Gem as Amulet)

KM191 (Bronze nail)

KM212 (Lead Strip)

KM220 (Early-Middle Roman Bronze Finger Ring)

KM376 (Early-Middle Roman Glass small deep bowl)

KM470 (Middle-Late Roman Syro-Palestinian glass lamp or beaker)