| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1026 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Drain southeast of Turkish house | |
| Category: | Structure | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1026 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/04/11 | |
| Description: | Structure materials: tiles, large cobbles, cement. Material size: tiles: W.0.28m; L.0.295m; cobble L.0.10-0.15m. Material finish: roughly hewned. Material bonding: cement. Features: dog pawn imprint on 2nd to northernmost tile. | |
| Notes: | The drain is located SE and E of the Turkish house. It runs in N-S direction and consists of a layer of flat tiles formning the bottom with sides of mortared cobbles. For most of its length the cover is not preserved, but we may have some fragmentss of broken covering tiles in the center of the structure, perhaps fallen in. The sides are not preserved to their full extent. On the second northernmost tile, a dog pawn imprint is preserved. The fill of the preserved channel was excavated as context 1024. While only 20% of the context was sieved, when we came upon the channel of the drain, we decided to continue digging it as the same context, because there was no change in the soil. However, we sieved all the soil that filled the channel. Some soil still remains in the channel under the cover of tiles, which we will excavate later as a separate context. The eastern side of the drain was exposed completely, while the western baulk is left unexcavated since the soil is of different consistency. Thus, we cannot have an exact measurement of the height of the channel. On the south side, the channel is cut by the robbing trench of wall 918. Guy Sanders has hypothesized that the drain is related to the wall and may have continued south through a doorway, which is no longer preserved. The drain also seems to run further north toward a well located just east of the Turkish house and which might have been related to the drain. Sanders also noted that the dimensions of the bottom tiles might use the Late Roman foot as a standard measure, and are similar to the size of the tiles used in the constructrion of the Panayia back dated to the 6th century CE. | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | before mid 6th c. | |
| Grid: | 260.14-259.75E, 1014.96-1017.17N | |
| XMin: | 259.75 | |
| XMax: | 260.14 | |
| YMin: | 1014.96 | |
| YMax: | 1017.17 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.58-85.76m. |
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