Locus TRC0701-003 [permalink]
Type
Locus
In excavation trench
Trench C-07-01
Logical part of
Loci
Published as
Rifeetal2022, p. 88
Contents of Unit
BUILDING MATERiALS. Stone (7 frr., 0.25 kg): 4 bluish gray schistose marble chips,1 pavonazzetto (p.L. 0.092, Th. 0.024); 3) 1 Proconnesian (p.L. 0.060, Th. 0.015), 1 Pentelic (p.L. 0.062, Th. 0.018). Mortar/plaster: 884 frr., 17.25 kg. Tesserae (3): 1 white, 1 black, 1 pink. Tile/brick: 274 frr., 10.80 kg (incl several in greenish yellow early Corinthian fabric).
Contents of Unit
LAMP. (5 frr., 0.013 kg): 3 Ath glazed handle; 1 Ath late unglazed discus (rosette); 1 unk body.
Contents of Unit
MODERN DEBRIS. 1 fr. hard gray plastic (bucket?); 1 oblong lead fishing-line sinker; 1 steel nail.
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Byzantine (8 frr., 0.042 kg): 1 body: Corinthian? Brown Glazed-ware convex body (cup or jug?), exterior? has clear glaze without slip (11th century or later; cf. TRC0806-002); 1 body: Sgraffito ware, interior has white slip and yellow glaze with fine linear design (mid-late 12th century); 6 body: Corinthian Sgraffito-ware bowls/plates, upper exterior has white slip, interior has white to light yellow slip and uneven, yellow to light green glaze with traces of uneven, broad, linear and spiral designs (early 13th century).
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Greek (13 frr., 0.038 kg): 8 Corinthian fine ware (1 pyxis lid rim; 2 cup/pitcher handles; 1 krater handle; 1 kotyle/skyphos base; 1 bowl body; 2 closed-shape body), 3 Attic fine ware (1 open-shape rim; 2 Classical–Hellenistic open-shape body), 1 imported fine ware (bowl base, KP111), 1 Corinthian coarse ware (lekane body).
Contents of Unit
POTTERY. Roman (1,363 frr., 13.57 kg): date range to Late Roman. ESA, ESB, Italian sigillata(?), ESC, ARS; unslipped pitcher; basin/jar; cooking ware including NePcf; Campanian, Koan-type, MRA3, African, combed amphora.
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Glass (6 frr.): 1 rim, bluish greenish colorless (beaker, KM424); 1 base, colorless, thin (concave bottom); 1 rim, light violet, thick (fire-polished lip); 2 green body; 1 bluish green body, thin.
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Lithic: 1 obsidian truncated blade (KM160).
Contents of Unit
SMALL FINDS. Metal: 3 small frr. iron, irregular.
Explanation of deposition
Residual in Byzantine-Modern colluvium and topsoil on central, mixed with collapse of building over tomb 10.
In Deposit or Stratum
Koutsongila Stratum C2
Location in unit
In upper level around dromos of tomb 10.
Uninventoried Type Present
Basin, Bin, Pail, or Tub
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Brick
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Dressel 2-4 Unclassified
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Jar
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Late Roman Athenian Lamp, late unglazed (“postglaze”)
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Metal, Unclassified
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Middle Roman Amphora 3
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Middle-Late Roman Athenian lamp, early glazed
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Modern Debris
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Pitcher or Jug
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Tessera(e)
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Tile
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Unclassified African Red Slip
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Unclassified Amphora
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Unclassified Building Stone
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Unclassified Cooking Ware
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Unclassified Eastern Sigillata A
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Unclassified Eastern Sigillata B
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Unclassified Eastern Sigillata C
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Unclassified Glass
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Unclassified Italian Sigillata
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Unclassified Late Antique Combed Amphora
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Unclassified Mortar/Plaster
Linked to

KM160 (Prehistoric Obsidian Blade)

KM424 (Early-Middle Roman Glass beaker)

KP111 (Early-Middle Hellenistic Imported Bowl)