Locus TRA0804-003 [permalink]
Type
Locus
In excavation trench
Trench A-07/08/09-04
Logical part of
Loci
Published as
Rifeetal2022, p. 36
Contents of Unit
LAMP. (1 fr., 0.006 kg): Early Hellenistic Corinthian Howland 29A/B shoulder/base.
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Byzantine (1 fr., 0.002 kg): 1 rim/body: bowl? with pointed rim?, exterior and interior have white slip and light yellow glaze (12th-13th century).
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Greek (33 frr., 0.192 kg): 17 Corinthian fine ware (1 cup rim; 1 cup handle; 1 mug/pitcher handle/body; 3 cup bases; 9 open-shape body; 2 closed-shape body), 7 Attic fine ware (1 cup rim; 1 echinus bowl/kothon rim; 1 open rim; 1 cup base; 3 open body), 1 Corinthian molded relief ware (Hellenistic bowl body with guilloche and rosette), 3 Cor coarse ware (1 lekane body, 2 tiles); 5 Corinthian A/A′ amphora.
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Roman (5,055 frr., 62.32 kg): standard colluvial assemblage.
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Glass (47 frr.): 1 body/base, light yellowish green (cup or small bowl, KM436); 1 body, colorless body, thin (Hofheim cup with linear-cut decoration); 1 rim, green (small, inwardly folded, tubular lip); 1 rim, light green (inwardly folded, tubular lip); 1 rim, light green (outwardly thickened, fire-polished lip); 2 rim, light blue (outwardly thickened, fire-polished lip); 1 body, light yellow, thin; 2 body, dark yellowish orange (brown), thin; 1 body, yellowish green; 1 body, light yellowish green, thin; 2 body, green, thick; 1 chip, dark greenish yellow, thick; 5 body, dark orangish (brownish) yellow; 2 body, light blue; 4 body, light blue, thin; 2 body, bluish colorless (ribbed bowl); 7 body, bluish colorless, thin; 7 body, colorless, thin; 1 base, green, thick (concave bottom); 2 base, light blue (folded, tubular ring base); 1 base, light blue; 1 base, light indigo-violet (concave bottom).
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Metal: 3 total: 1 lead strip: sinker, shim or patch? (KM202); 1 intact bronze nail (Type IV; KM208); 1 fr. lead, irregular: raw? (L. 0.058, Th. 0.027).
Explanation of deposition
Byzantine-Post-Byzantine colluvium on south ridge.
In Deposit or Stratum
Koutsongila Stratum A3
Location in unit
Upper level across central to east trench.
Uninventoried Type Present
Byzantine Glazed Pottery
Uninventoried Type Present
Corinthian Type A Amphora
Uninventoried Type Present
Hellenistic Moldmade Bowl (“Megarian Bowl“)
Uninventoried Type Present
Howland Type 29 Lamp
Uninventoried Type Present
Metal, Unclassified
Uninventoried Type Present
Unclassified Glass
Uninventoried Type Present
Unclassified Pottery
Linked to

KM202 (Ancient Lead Strip)

KM208 (Bronze nail)

KM436 (Early-Middle Roman Glass cup or small bowl)