Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1029

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1029
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Brown layer below floor 961 south of wall 992
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1029
Page:		0
Date:		2013/04/11
Stratum:		stone, pebbles, cobbles, ceramics, tile, bone, carbon, glass, painted plaster, marble, andesite millstone, iron
Description:		The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		Almost immediately Panos finds a coin, 2013-48, in situ. Yes, alas, we begin screening 100%. Just prior, Panos found a few carbonized twigs toward the W extent of the context. There are chunks of mortar within the matrix. At the E extent it is clear that 1029 overlied the hard red deposit that stretches E for several meters. This may be a leveling fill for the construction of floor 964.. As the context descends, it becomes more thickly packed with tile fragments and stones of cobble size. These have no uniform bedding - a dumped fill. Also a few stones of boulder size in the 20 cm range. The plot thickens. Below floor 961 there seems to be a series of floors, but the context has also exposed a deeper tile collapse. DD has postulated that this may go hand in hand with the column drum in cut 1027. That is, whatever depression 1029 is filling more or less lines up with what would have been an opening in the wall to the N prior to the construction of the blocking wall east of the column base. Panos finds coin 2013-50 in situ, toward the S extent. Then coin 2013-51 is found in the screen. We reach the bottom first at the W: an underlying deposit harder and redder. Then coin 2013-52 from screen. A piece of andesite millstone. GDRS suggests that we should look N of wall 992 to see if we can catch the other side of 1029, which it now seems best to describe as a 'pit'. This being the case, perhaps water-sieving is in order: we take a sample from the E just above the bottom. Moving E, the underlying deposit seems to be uniformly harder and redder.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. Preroman64 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. cloche lid. 6 rims. 2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Niederbieber 77 (MR Amph. 7). 2 handles. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Corinthian figural bowl1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Preclassical3 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Amphoras- Gaza, amphora. 1 handle. ; Cooking ware. bowl. 2 rims. as hesp 2005 2-42; Fineware. Attic bowl with white meander, bowl. 1 rim. With white meander; Fineware. Rom- AfRS, Unidentified. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. ER5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Rom- Çandarli, Unidentified. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. painted basin rim w/ twisted handle1 rim.
Pottery Summary:		78 frag(s) 0.59 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		405 frag(s) 8.08 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		237 frag(s) 1.71 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		slate revetment 1; glass, clear, greenish, bs 1; glass clear amber, bs 1; Plaster, unpainted, 3; glass clear greenish, bs 7; unidentifed bone, 4; Marble, purple, revetment, 1; glass clear blueish, bs 11, base? 1, rim 1, tubular goblet base 1; corinthian tile 1; Carbon, wood, 7, seed, 1; andesite millstone 1; marble, white revetment, 5; glass clear colorless, bs 31; marble white with purple vein, revetment 3; Iron, nail, 2, slag, 4; Plaster, painted on both sides, with two phases, red, blue, 1; shell white 2, black 1, beige 7; Tesserae, white, 1, unknown, 1; marble, blue with white veins, revetment 8; glass clear colorless, solid folded base (probably goblet) 1; lamp, bs 4; glass clear unk color, cup rim 7. All very fine, rounded lips; some may come from same vessel
Period:		Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:		2nd half 6th c.
Grid:		266.12-264.22E, 1013.37-1014.39N
XMin:		264.22
XMax:		266.12
YMin:		1013.37
YMax:		1014.39
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.62-86.07m.
References:		Coins (4)