Locus TRA0909-001 [permalink]
Type
Locus
In excavation trench
Trench A-09-09
Logical part of
Loci
Published as
Rifeetal2022, p. 45
Contents of Unit
BUILDING MATERIALS. Stone (3 frr., 0.08 kg): 1 Pentelic with sculpted figure? (p.L. 0.090, Th. 0.019), 1 Pentelic with 1 rounded edge (p.L. 0.069, Th. 0.013); 1 bluish gray schistose marble (p.L. 0.084, Th. 0.015). Mortar/plaster: 67 frr., 11.12 kg. Tesserae: 1 white. Tile/brick: 231 frr., 22.54 kg.
Contents of Unit
COINS: half-centenionalis of Constantius II from Thessalonica (351-354 C.E.; KC077); pentanummium of Justin II and Sophia (565-578 C.E.; KC102).
Contents of Unit
LAMP. (4 frr., 0.017 kg): 1 Early Classical Athenian discus/shoulder Howland 20 (KL249); 1 Athenian early unglazed base; 1 Athenian late unglazed shoulder (herringbone); 1 unknown body.
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Byzantine (3 frr., 0.015 kg): 1 base, heavily worn: bowl with low ring foot (est. Diam. 0.040), interior has white slip and green glaze (12th-13th century); 1 body: exterior and interior have white slip and yellow glaze (12th-13th century); 1 rim: bowl? with pointed lip and vertical rim (est. Diam. 0.060), interior and exterior have white slip and yellow glaze (12th-13th century).
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Greek (10 frr., 0.100 kg): 5 Corinthian fine ware (1 closed-shape rim; 1 Archaic-Classical cup handle; 2 cup base; 1 Classical-Hellenistic open-shape body); 5 Corinthian A/A′ amphora.
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Roman (1,306 frr., 23.07 kg): standard colluvial assemblage.
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Glass (9 frr.): 1 rim/neck, light blue to bluish colorless (unguentarium, KM251); 1 body, greenish colorless, thick; 1 body, greenish blue, thin; 3 body, light blue, thin; 2 body, light indigo-purple; 1 body, colorless, thick.
Explanation of deposition
Uppermost colluvium and topsoil on south ridge.
In Deposit or Stratum
Koutsongila Stratum A4
Location in unit
Across trench.
Uninventoried Type Present
Brick
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Byzantine Glazed Pottery
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Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
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Middle Roman Athenian Lamp, unglazed
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Tessera(e)
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Tile
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Unclassified Architectural Decoration
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Unclassified Lamp
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Unclassified Mortar/Plaster
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Unclassified Pottery
Linked to

KC077 (Late Roman bronze coin of Constantius II from Thessalonica)

KC102 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine pentanummion of Justin II and Sophia from Cyzicus)

KL249 (Late Archaic-Early Classical Athenian Lamp)

KM251 (Early-Middle Roman Glass unguentarium)