BUILDING MATERIALS. Stone (2 frr., 0.04 kg): 2 Pentelic (p.L. 0.074, Th. 0.028; 1 chip). Mortar/plaster: 1 fr., 0.10 kg. Tesserae (17): 11 white, 1 red, 5 black. Tile/brick: 25 frr., 3.50 kg.
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LAMP. (3 frr., 0.006 kg): Broneer Type XXVII body.
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POTTERY. Roman (968 frr., 15.40 kg): ESA, ESC Hayes Form 1 (KP359), eastern Thin-Walled ware, Knidian Relief-ware patera with emblema of Silenus on sea-leopard (KP358), African Red Slip, regional red slip; unslipped pitcher, including NePcf; utilitarian (some with mortar), including basin/jar; cooking ware, including NePcf, Early-Middle Roman frying pan/casserole, everted-rim cooking pot, Late Roman-Early Byzantine globular(?) cooking pot (KP360); Dressel 2-4 Italian, MRA7, LRA1, LRA2, combed amphora.
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SMALL FINDS. Glass (18 frr.): 1 rim/body, colorless (cylindrical cup with overhanging rim, KM413); 2 rim, green, thin (fire-polished lip); 1 body, yellowish green; 3 body, green; 1 body, bluish green; 1 body, blue, thick; 2 body, light blue, thin; 6 body, colorless; 1 base, green (folded, tubular ring base).
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SMALL FINDS. Lithic: 1 obsidian secondary cortical flake (KM332).
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SMALL FINDS. Metal: 2 total: 1 fr. iron nail shank (p.L. 0.020, Th. 0.007); 1fr. lead strip, irregular, twisted and folded: patch, shim, or sinker? (p.L. 0.026, Th. 0.002; cf. KM202).
Explanation of deposition
Early Byzantine colluvium over Building B6 south of Octagon.