Locus TRB1110-007 [permalink]
Type
Locus
In excavation trench
Trench B-09/11-10
Logical part of
Loci
Published as
Rifeetal2022, p. 86
Contents of Unit
BUILDING MATERIALS. Mortar/plaster: numerous small, disintegrated, not quantified. Tesserae (5): 2 white, 1 red, 2 black. Tile/brick: 308 frr., 50.64 kg.
Contents of Unit
BUILDING MATERIALS. Stone (3 frr., 0.09 kg): 2 bluish gray schistose marble chips, including 1 fascia; 1 Proconnesian marble chip.
Contents of Unit
LAMP. (2 frr., 0.024 kg): 1 Athenian glazed discus/shoulder/handle (plain+wavy lines, KL056); 1 Late Roman Athenian imitation Asia Minor discus/shoulder/handle (outlined cross and wedges+single row raised triple circles, KL188).
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Roman (528 frr., 5.68 kg): date-range to Late Roman-Early Byzantine, including African red slip; unslipped table ware; utilitarian ware; cooking ware; LRA1, LRA2, LRA5 amphora.
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Glass (5 frr.): 3 body, light yellow, thin; 1 body, light blue; 1 windowpane, light green (cylinder-blown; cf. KM468, KM469, KM471-473).
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Metal: 1 fr. iron blade or band, flat, rectangular in section, heavily corroded and broken at both ends (p.L. 0.062, Th. 0.008).
Explanation of deposition
Sediment over floor of north ambulatory from use and disuse of Octagon, mixed with massive structural debris from catastrophic collapse of Octagon and Byzantine-Modern colluvium and topsoil over area.
In Deposit or Stratum
Koutsongila Deposit B14b
In Deposit or Stratum
Koutsongila Deposit B17
In Deposit or Stratum
Koutsongila Stratum B6
Location in unit
Ground and upper level in northwest trench extension but displaced by looting.
Uninventoried Type Present
Bladed Tool (knife)
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Brick
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Late Roman Amphora 1
Uninventoried Type Present
Late Roman Amphora 2
Uninventoried Type Present
Late Roman Amphora 5
Uninventoried Type Present
Tessera(e)
Uninventoried Type Present
Tile
Uninventoried Type Present
Unclassified African Red Slip
Uninventoried Type Present
Unclassified Architectural Decoration
Uninventoried Type Present
Unclassified Cooking Ware
Uninventoried Type Present
Unclassified Glass
Uninventoried Type Present
Unclassified Mortar/Plaster
Uninventoried Type Present
Unclassified Plain Table Ware
Uninventoried Type Present
Unclassified Utilitarian Ware
Linked to

KL056 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp)

KL188 (Late Roman Athenian Lamp)