Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1076

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1076
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Pebbly Fill W of Wall 1007
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1076
Page:		0
Date:		2013/04/16
Stratum:		Stones (pebbles), ceramics, tile, cement, carbon, bronze, iron, marble, painted plaster
Description:		The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		We begin excavating 1076 after completing 1074, since it does not seem possible to determine the E extent of the possible N-S cut/channel otherwise, although DD suspects this latter is later, since 1076 seems to be cut at its W extent along this line. We decide to screen 50% of the context, though it is claear that Panos thinks this is too much. We find a fragment of pebble pavement in the matrix near the W extent, like pieces found in earlier contexts in this area, but which seem to be absent further W. Left open at end of day. [17 April 2013] We return in the morning; RV tells us that Panos had switched to a big pick, but as we could see in the picked soil ash, charcoal, etc. he would probably return to the small pick. Large square-shanked iron nail. More pieces of the slate opus sectile pieces as found in higher levels here. So far, in the westernmost meter or so, much pottery and little bone. Some shell from the sieve: half a small bivalve, and a murex-looking thing. On to the second bucket of pottery. A small concentration of iron fragments (3-4 pcs) ca. 30 cm S of Wall 1033. The context is full of stones -- 20% each pebbles and cobbles. Just NE of Pit 847 the big pick comes back out. The third bucket of pottery begun; we are still on the first pass from W to E [we turn out to only require one pass]. When 1076 was deposited, the wall that was robbed out of 1009 was still standing, and there may have been a pavement to its E that was also robbed out and filled by 1009: hence the two-level lower extent of 1009 and the S boundary of 1076 in this area. A bronze ring from the sieve. Exposed below so far: at the SW extent the top of a dark fill chock full of tile, stone, an amphora neck. Half a meter east of that, a N-S ridge of sediment with concrete or plaster inclusion. The SW dark fill is part of the softer deposit we excavate as 1081.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. Geometric, oinochoe. 1 handle. ; Coarseware. Amphoras- Palestinian, amphora. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. bowl. 1 rim. as Hesperia 2005 2-42; Fineware. Rom- ESB, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .Sgraffito ?ANO?; Fineware. Arretine, plate unidentified. (saved to lot) .stamp: CRISPINI; Cooking ware. Flat lid, lid. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. Niederbieber 77, Niederbieber 77 (MR Amph. 7). 1 rim. 1 handle. ; Fineware. Preroman315 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Late Roman Amphora 2, LR Amph. 2. 1 handle. ; Fineware. ER76 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		342 frag(s) 2.87 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		1029 frag(s) 18.22 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		471 frag(s) 2.87 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		Pebble pavement, 5; Bronze, nail, Th. 0.006, 1; bronze casting slag, 1; Iron, unidentified, 3; Lamps, 9; Marble veneer, white 1, grey 5, red 2, veined red 1, dark grey hard slate 1; shell. Bivalve, 1; Lamps, Preroman, 2; Pebble pavement, 1 , L. 0.09, W. 0.06, Th. 0.03; Terracotta handmade figurine of a small seated dove, head, neck + ends of feet + tail broken off, L. 0.041, W 0.02, H 0.021, traces of white paint or plaster on top + bottom. Cf. KT 41-33 size + modeling of tail (6th-4th c. BCE). (saved to lot); Bronze functional ring, complete, D. 0.022, Th. 0.003, 1 (saved to lot); Glass, clear, greenish, tubular goblet foot, 1, 2nd half 5th cen. Or later.; Bronze, unidentified, 1; Iron bloom, cf. MF 2012-19, PH. 0.050, 1; PH. 0.040, 1 (saved to lot); Glass, clear colourless, bs 5; clear greenish, bs 1; window glass 1; Preroman pebble floor, 5; Painted plaster, convex surface, red, 1; Iron, nail, square shank, Th. 0.008. 5; Th. 0.005, 3; slag 3;; glass clear turquoise blue, bs 1, blueish, bs 1
Period:		Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:		2/2 5th c.
Grid:		269.59-264.81E, 1011.53-1014.78N
XMin:		264.81
XMax:		269.59
YMin:		1011.53
YMax:		1014.78
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.89-86.07m.
References:		Object: C 2013 7