Locus TRB0914-003 [permalink]
Type
Locus
In excavation trench
Trench B-09-14
Logical part of
Loci
Published as
Rifeetal2022, p. 83
Contents of Unit
BUILDING MATERIALS. Mortar/plaster: 135 frr., 23.60 kg. Tesserae (369): 318 white, 22 red, 29 black. Tile/brick: 727 frr., 79.80 kg.
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BUILDING MATERIALS. Stone (15 frr., 0.92 kg): 5 bluish gray schistose marble with mortar adhering (p.L. 0.132, Th. 0.014; p.L. 0.182, Th. 0.020; p.L. 0.044, Th. 0.007; p.L. 0.138, Th. 0.020; p.L. 0.050, Th. 0.008); 7 Pentelic (p.L. 0.054, Th. 0.014; p.L. 0.080, Th. 0.013; p.L. 0.115, Th. 0.012; p.L. 0.099, Th. 0.017; p.L. 0.075, Th. 0.016; p.L. 0.065, Th. 0.016; p.L. 0.060, Th. 0.016); 1 Africano (p.L. 0.095, Th. 0.017); 1 breccia di Sciro (p.L. 0.052, Th. 0.013); 1 verde antico (p.L. 0.078, Th. 0.016). Revetment with sculpted decoration in bluish gray schistose marble (KA055).
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COIN: follis of Phocas from Antioch (605/606 CE; KC096).
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MODERN DEBRIS. 4 grenade pins, 2 frr. iron.
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Greek (8 frr., 0.021 kg): 8 Corinthian fine ware (1 cup/skyphos rim; 2 cup handles including Archaic–Classical kotyle/skyphos handle; 2 cup/pitcher bases; 1 plate/bowl base; 2 open-shape body).
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POTTERY. Roman (1,554 frr., 20.07 kg): standard colluvial assemblage, date-range to Late Roman.
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SMALL FINDS. Glass (36 frr.): 2 base/body, bluish green (hemispherical ribbed bowl, 524); 1 body/base, bluish colorless (small, deep, cylindrical bowl, 543); 1 body/base, light green with a tinge of blue (deep bowl with applied solid ring base, 583); 1 base, light greenish yellow (goblet, 635); 1 body/base, light greenish yellow (large globular flask, 650); 1 body, light blue, thick and flat (square bottle?); 2 rim, green (fire-polished lip); 1 rim, greenish colorless (flaring); 1 rim, light blue (fire-polished lip); 1 body, yellow, thin; 1 body, green, thick; 5 body, light green; 13 body, light blue; 4 body, colorless; 1 base, light green (folded, tubular ring base).
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SMALL FINDS. Metal: 8 total: 3 lead fishnet weights (705); 1 intact bronze nail (Type I; 734); 1 intact bronze nail (Type III; 741); 1 fr. bronze nail shank (p.L. 0.043, Th. 0.005); 2 lead strips including 1 cut into square: counter or gaming piece? (L./W. 0.019, Th. 0.004), and 1 bent into cylinder: fishnet weight (L. 0.022, Diam. 0.017).
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS: Stone: 2 disks stopper or plug from bluish gray schistose marble (KM272) and breccia di Sciro (KM435).
Explanation of deposition
Byzantine-Modern colluvium and topsoil over area of Octagon, mixed with 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
Upper level across north trench.
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Brick
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Fishnet Weight
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Glass Bottle
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Greek Pottery
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Metal, Unclassified
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Modern Debris
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Nail
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Revetment
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Tessera(e)
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Tile
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Unclassified Architectural Decoration
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Unclassified Glass
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Unclassified Mortar/Plaster
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Unclassified Pottery
Linked to

KA055 (Late Roman Bluish-Gray Schistose Marble Revetment)

KC096 (Early Byzantine follis of Phocas from Antioch-Theupolis)

KM272 (Ancient Stone Stopper or Plug)

KM273 (Bronze nail)

KM287 (Bronze nail)

KM347a-c (Lead Fishnet Weights)

KM435 (Ancient Marble Stopper or Plug)

KM458 (Roman Glass large flask)

KM459 (Late Roman-Early Byzantine Glass goblet)