| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1164 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Fill of foundation trench N of Wall 851 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1164 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/05/30 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2013-021 | |
| Stratum: | Large amounts of tile (large fragments); ceramic sherds; carbon; unfinished plaster chunks; small pieces of mudbrick; small stones; small amounts of bone and shell; significant # of glass fragments; composing ca. 70% of the deposit | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light greyish black. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | Because 1164 is a possible foundation trench for Wall 851, we are removing this narrow area first before the abutting context to the north and sieving 100%.The sieving has produced a significant amount of glass. Large tiles, all broken but in big pieces (a representative one at 23 x 19.2 x 2cm), large pieces of carbon, and small chunks of degraded mudbrick, but only about half a bucket of sherds (small fragments). Direclty overlying this deposit (and removed along with it) was a chunk of plaster (indicated on plan) which was packed up against the nroth face of 851 on the west side. Perhaps this plaster served as a patch of the wall, or once served as a plaster floor confined by walls 851, 754, 5334, and 1138. Deposit 1141, which overlaid this foundation trench, abutted this plaster fragment (since the plaster fragment was preserved at a higher level than the rest of the deposit). Thus, alternatively, the plaster could have been deposited as part of 1164 to seal the foundation trench (e.g., just poured in on top of the foundation fill). Excavation of 1164 reached a depth of ca 50-60 cm, at which point a darker red soil appeared with large stones and plaster . The bottom of wall 857 has not yet appeared, so perhaps 1164 served as a foundation trench for a later phase or renovation of wall 851 to the north. Further excavation is necessary in order to analyze the architectural phases. We will now excavate the deposit that abutted 1164 to the north to wall 5334, since the foundation trench has now been removed and there is less risk of contamination. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. LRC, Form 6?. 1 rim. Form 6?; Fineware. Pre-Roman17 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. stewpot, as Hesperia 2005, 2-35. 1 rim. Eastern Aegean micacious fabric; Fineware. Miniature vessel, bowl. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 20 frag(s) 0.12 kg. (5% saved) fineware. | |
| 106 frag(s) 2.35 kg. (1% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 36 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (3% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | revetment white 2; Glass: 1 BS; Bronze: 1; Glass frags: 6. 4 colorless (ranging btw the largest at L. .021 m, Th. .014 m., w/ the smallest L. .0098 m., Th. .0001 m.); 1 green convex BS (L. .0226 m, Th. .0014 m.); 1 brown BS, broken in a rounded C-shape at L. .0224 m; Th. .0016 m); sombrero lid (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | mid-6th | |
| Grid: | 276.91-275.02E, 1012.48-1012.84N | |
| XMin: | 275.02 | |
| XMax: | 276.91 | |
| YMin: | 1012.48 | |
| YMax: | 1012.84 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.53-86.31m. |
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