Locus TRC0705-001 [permalink]

Type

Locus

In excavation trench

Trench C-07/08-05

Logical part of

Loci

Published as

Rifeetal2022, pp. 92-93

Contents of Unit

BUILDING MATERIALS. Mortar/plaster: 616 frr., 21.77 kg (including 1 large fr. cream to buff, coarse plaster with convex, rounded molding (torus?) and impression of brickwork on back, p.L. 0.130 m, Th. 0.027; joins TRC0705-003). Tile/brick: 327 frr., 19.60 kg.

Contents of Unit

POTTERY. Greek (11 frr., 0.089 kg): 8 Corinthian fine ware (1 bowl rim; 1 kantharos handle/body; 1 cup handle; 1 cup base; 1 pitcher base; 3 open-shape body), 1 Attic fine ware (bowl rim); 2 Corinthian A/A′ amphora.

Contents of Unit

POTTERY. Roman (701 frr., 5.52 kg): standard colluvial assemblage, date-range to Late Roman.

Contents of Unit

SMALL FINDS. Glass (11 frr.): 1 base, bluish colorless (tubular unguentarium); 1 rim, blue, thick; 1 body, dark yellowish orange (brown); 1 body, light green; 2 body, light bluish green; 4 body, colorless, thin; 1 base, blue, thick (concave bottom).

Contents of Unit

SMALL FINDS. Metal: 2 total: 1 intact bronze tack with large, flat, circular head (Type V; p.L. 0.015, Th. shank 0.004, Diam. head 0.021); 1 fr. iron nail shank with domed, circular head, heavily corroded (Type VII; p.L. 0.031, Th. shank 0.007, Diam. head 0.021).

Explanation of deposition

Structural debris from collapse of Building C1, mixed with Byzantine-Modern colluvium and topsoil.

In Deposit or Stratum

Koutsongila Deposit C3

In Deposit or Stratum

Koutsongila Stratum C2

Location in unit

Upper to middle level across entire trench on on central ridge.

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Brick

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Corinthian Type A Amphora

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Glass Unguentarium

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Greek Pottery

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Nail

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Tile

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Unclassified Glass

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Unclassified Mortar/Plaster

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Unclassified Pottery