| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1073 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Reddish fill below walls 1068 and 1069 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1073 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/04/16 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2013-006 | |
| Stratum: | 30%- tile, ceramic sherds, small cobbles, large pebbles, charcoal, bone, glass, iron, bronze | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level down to the N. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey sand. | |
| Notes: | This context is a fill under the curvilinear walls 1068 and 1069, located just east of the west scarp of the excavation area and north of cut 809. We started diggin in hopes of better understanding the date of the walls and the activity in this area as a part of larger program of investigation of area south of Turkish house. The context was relatively deep and required multiple passes to remove. Due to the presence of small pieces of charcoal in the soil, we elected to take a sample for water sieving. A coin, 2013-83, was found near the top of the context. Ceramic sherds were abundant in the context, and there was also a lot of broken tile and cobbles, animal bones, and charcoal. After we removed two passes of soil from this deposit, it became clear that the layer goes under the tellowish brown soil of baulk between cuts 809 and 890, located to the east. Therefore, we have to stopp digging this layer and remove the baulk that is laid on it before we continue digging this fill any deeper. The current context is laid on a layer of tile and in the eastern part of the context. The physical relationship between these three contexts is as follows: yellow-brownish soil of the baulk between cuts 890 and 809 is laid on the current context, which is in tun laid on tile layer, which seems to continue under all of it extent. Therefore, we decided to close the current context and we will move east to the baulk (excavated as context 1075). When we ascertain the extend of this baulk and remove it, we will come back to this area and we will dig the continuation of this deposit as a separate context. Lot of individual sherds that are not going to mend up- clean up, dump, perhaps after an earthwquake? | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. Cooking pot as Hesperia2005#383 rims. (saved to lot) .possibly; Cooking ware. Cooking pot as Hesperia 2005 #2-4016 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. AfRS plate unidentified, plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .palmette stamp; Coarseware. red painted table amphora, amphora. 1 rim. 1 handle. 13 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Bowl as Hesperia 2005#2-431 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Gaza, amphora. 3 rims. 1 handle. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Palestinian15 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .4 with added white; Fineware. AfRS unidentified1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. micaceous water jar1 handle. 24 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Early Roman2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. late roman amphora 2, amphora. 2 handles. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Attic gouched pitcher, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. preroman6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. East Aegean micaceous cooking pot as Hesperia 2005#2352 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Corregated basin1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Eastern Aegean micaceous cooking pot 2005 #2-362 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. red painted basin1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .wavy line out; Fineware. AfRS plate unidentified1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .unidentifiable stamp; Cooking ware. table amphora as Hesperia 2005#3-252 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LRC form 11 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LRC unidentified1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Table amphora2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Late Roman amphora 17 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Other stewpots6 rims. 16 handles. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. AfRS form 61a1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LRC Form 3b2 rims. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 19 frag(s) 0.3 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 464 frag(s) 9.17 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 425 frag(s) 5.25 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | wall plaster, green, 1 (saved to lot); sombrero lid, cp, 1 (saved to lot); iron nail, square shank, 2 (saved to lot); slag, 5 (saved to lot); glass clear olive green, bs 2, blueish green, bs 2, pale blue, bs 2 (saved to lot); iron, rod, bent, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear yellowish green, bowl of footed goblet (no base or rim preserved). Cf. Agora XXXIV #340-341. 6th cent? (saved to lot); glass clear green, window inlay 2 (1 quite large) (saved to lot); lamp, imitation north african, circular variety, shoulder, 1, discus, 1 (saved to lot); iron, strip, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear unk color, bs 15, opaque unk color, bs 3 (saved to lot); glass clear colorless, rim 2 outward thickened, bs 5 (saved to lot); wall plaster, red, 2 (saved to lot); shell, ostria edulis, 1 (saved to lot); stopper, ceramic, 1 (saved to lot); lamp, imitation attic, unglazed, shoulder and nozzle, 2 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish blue, straight ring base for bowl or plate 1, flat bottle base 1, straight round rim 1 (saved to lot); shell, 2 (saved to lot); lamp, reddish pink clay, missing handle and nozzle, Ephesus type?, disk: winged figure and grapes?, rim: vine and grapes, base: circle, L. 0.069, W. 0.052, H. 0.025, c.f. L 72-1, L 69-101 (saved to lot); wall plaster, red and white, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish, rim 2 outward thickened (saved to lot); tile, diamond, 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail, with bronze head, L. 0.03m; D. of head 0.018m (saved to lot); glass, clear, 1 (saved to lot); Lamp, glazed, attic, shoulder, 1 (saved to lot); iron, lump, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish blue, waste or cullet 2 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 5th-first quarter of 6th c. CE | |
| Grid: | 257.53-255.71E, 1011.79-1013.6N | |
| XMin: | 255.71 | |
| XMax: | 257.53 | |
| YMin: | 1011.79 | |
| YMax: | 1013.6 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.23-85.51m. | |
| References: | Coin: 2013 83 Coin: 2013 144 |
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