Locus TRB0913-001 [permalink]
Type
Locus
In excavation trench
Trench B-09-13
Logical part of
Loci
Published as
Rifeetal2022, pp. 78-79
Contents of Unit
BUILDING MATERIALS. Mortar/plaster: 369 frr., 114.47 kg. Tesserae (150): 73 white, 32 red, 45 black. Tile/brick: 497 frr., 108.40 kg (including rooftiles and walling bricks).
Contents of Unit
BUILDING MATERIALS. Stone (12 frr., 1.12 kg): 4 bluish gray schistose marble (p.L. 0.060, Th. 0.007; p.L. 0.040, Th. 0.006; p.L. 0.032, Th. 0.006, p.L. 0.085, Th. 0.008); 3 Pentelic (p.L. 0.096, Th. 0.009; p.L. 0.112, Th. 0.010; p.L. 0.136, Th. 0.013); 2 portasanta (p.L. 0.120, Th. 0.009; p.L. 0.115, Th. 0.008); 1 Proconnesian (p.L. 0.132, Th. 0.014); 2 white marble chips.
Contents of Unit
MODERN DEBRIS. 3 grenade pins; 1 fr. barbed wire; 1 rusted iron object (modern?), bent at right angle with narrow tapering end widening to hollow open end (p.L. 0.085, max. Th. 0.008).
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Byzantine (2 frr., 0.007 kg): 1 rim: bowl? with pointed lip and vertical rim, interior and rim have yellow slip and yellow glaze (13th century); 1 body: interior has yellow slip and yellowish green glaze (13th–14th century).
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Greek (9 frr., 0.112 kg): 3 Corinthian fine ware (1 Hexamilia kantharos handle/body; 2 open-shape bases), 1 Corinthian coarse ware (lekane body); 5 Corinthian A/A′ amphora.
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Roman (1,796 frr., 7.98 kg): standard colluvial assemblage, date-range to Late Roman.
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Glass (19 frr.): 1 rim/body, light bluish green (conical bowl, KM401); 1 base, light yellow with a tinge of green (goblet with hollow knobbed stem, KM400); 1 base, light greenish yellow (conical base with folded tubular ring (goblet; from KM400?); 1 rim, light blue (inwardly folded, tubular lip); 5 body, light yellowish green, thin; 3 body, light green, thick; 2 body, light blue, thick; 1 body, bluish colorless; 1 body, colorless; 1 handle, green (thin strap); 1 base, blue (concave bottom); 1 windowpane, colorless (cast?).
Explanation of deposition
Byzantine-Modern colluvium and topsoil over area of Octagon, combined with mixed fill in WWII ditch with foxholes cutting down into Octagon.
In Deposit or Stratum
Koutsongila Deposit B18
In Deposit or Stratum
Koutsongila Stratum B6
Location in unit
Ground and upper level across central trench.
Uninventoried Type Present
Brick
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Byzantine Glazed Pottery
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Corinthian Type A Amphora
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Modern Debris
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Tessera(e)
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Tile
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Unclassified Architectural Decoration
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Unclassified Mortar/Plaster
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Unclassified Pottery
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Window Pane
Linked to

KM400 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Glass goblet)

KM401 (Early-Middle Roman Glass deep bowl)