Records

• Old Context CodeCH06SR0798
• DefinitionGray brown soil in center of a church
• DescriptionThe area in front of the apse, central part of the church between the apse and the tombs and between the tombs. 300x155 + 100x200 cm, 12-15 cm deep. A light-grey ashy brown soil. Includes tile, ceramics,human and animal bones, small quantity of charcoal. Several (7) articulated skeletons lay next to each other. Disarticulated remains included larger proportion of small bones, relatively few skulls and long bones; articulated skeletons were cut by the construction of the built tombs, while disarticulated remains could be seen in the same layer beneath the wall of the apse and beneath the altar support. Contained large, articulated fragments of stucco decoration, probably from an Early Byzantine church
• ObservationsPlaster was block lifted by conservators over several days
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• Munsell Colour
  • 5YR 6/2

• Room
  • N/A
• Area
  • Church

• • CH06SR_34

    Covers

• • CH06SR_798

• • Covers

    CH06SR_878

  • Covers

    CH06SR_881

  • Fills

    CH06SR_919

  • Fills

    CH06SR_919

  • Fills

    CH06SR_923

  • Fills

    CH06SR_924

  • Fills

    CH06SR_924

  • Covers

    CH06SR_999

• Same As

  None linked.

Total = 760

Faunal Species

	Total
Fox	15
Unidentifiable	83
Domestic Pig	43
Fish	37
Scallop	7
Aurochs?	5
Bird	30
Domestic Cattle	92
Dog	1
Domestic Goat	9
Cockle family	8
Crab	8
Donkey	1
Horse	1
Vineyard snail	5
Human	17
Brown Hare	3
Limpet	3
type of mollusc	13
Mussels	8
Oyster	166
Domestic Sheep	22
Domestic Sheep/Goat	183

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Total = 22

Birds

	Total
Unidentified Bird	5
Puffinus puffinus	1
Phalacrocorax carbo	1
Otis tarda	1
Gallus gallus f. Domestica	14

Total = 1052

Ceramic Class

	Total
Pithos	21
Storage	15
Lid	1
Amphora	728
Cookware	163
Fineware	124

Total = 1052

Ceramic Type

	Total
Pithos (type)	21
Closed storage vessel	15
Lid (type)	1
Red clay (Zeest - 69, 72, 73)	4
Light clay (Zeest 104-105; types Е-F-Shelov)	8
Sinope	6
Colchis	1
Unidentified Hellenistic/Roman amphora	8
Class 1 ("waisted")	19
Class 2 ("carrot")	48
Class 3 (Zeest-100)	15
Class 4 (LRA 3-Riley)	2
ADSV, type V	79
Class 12 (LRC 1-Riley)	55
Class 18 (LRA 2-Riley)	7
Class 22 (Zeest-95; LRA 4-Riley)	12
Class 24	200
Class 36	10
Class 41	229
Class 42 (Gunsenin-I)	8
Class 52	17
Handmade cookware	17
Wheelmade cookware	146
Plain fineware jar	19
Glazed White Ware II, Hayes 1992	29
Glazed White Ware II, type 3 (Hayes 1992)	4
Glazed White Ware IV (group 9, Yakobson)	1
Unidentified glazed fineware	1
Red-slip	50
LRC, form 2, Hayes 1972	2
LRC, form 3, Hayes 1972	4
Black gloss	11
Brown gloss	3

Total = 1052

Ceramic Date

	Total
2nd-3rd c. AD	4
5th-7th c. AD	237
9th-11th c. AD	499
12th-13th c. AD	19
Roman (Ceramic date)	57
3rd-4th c. AD	1
5th-6th c. AD	6
Hellenistic (Ceramic date)	18
Hellenistic/Roman	11