Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 5179 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Basket | | Name: | | Nezi Field, context 5179 | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context Type: | | Fill | | Title: | | Small pit fill - bottom stratum - ashy & carbon ri | | Category: | | Deposit | | Notebook: | | 1101 | | Context: | | 5179 | | Page: | | 0 | | Date: | | 2008/04/10 | | Stratum: | | Inclusions: ash - dark layer on top; angular stones of mixed sizes (up to approx. 0.08) | | Description: | | Top slope of the context is slight. The soil color is dark mixed. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | | Notes: | | This dark material lies within the small pit to the west of the larger pit 5173, so under both the soil excavated as 5174 and the mudbrick excavated as 5176. This context slopes slightly down to the middle and is made up of mixed dark greyish black and dark brownish red soil. We sampled the ash and very dark soil at the top (photographed before removed) and then continued a few more cm. It is cut by the larger pit to the E. This context is also lower than the pit to the E. | | Context Pottery: | | Fineware. ESA, unidentified. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. ESB, platter. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. roundm, pitcher. 1 rim. 1 handle. ; Fineware. ESA, form 51. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. thin-walled, beaker. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Megarian bowl, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Roman16 bodysherds. | | Pottery Summary: | | 23 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (4% saved) fineware. | | | | 61 frag(s) 0.84 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | | | | 25 frag(s) 0.18 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | | Context Artifacts: | | pebble mosaic 1 (saved to lot); plaster black 10, black with white stripe 1, blue marbled 1, yellow 1, white 2 (saved to lot); bone, 1 env. (saved to lot); lamp type 27 shoulder 1 (saved to lot); glass clear blue tapered rim 1 (saved to lot); Bone- most (nearly complete) tooth, molar of Equus sp (Horse, Ass Family) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s). | | Period: | | Early Roman (44BC-1/2 2nd c AD) | | Chronology: | | 1st-early 2nd npd | | Grid: | | 281.39-280.86E, 1017.9-1018.62N | | XMin: | | 280.86 | | XMax: | | 281.39 | | YMin: | | 1017.9 | | YMax: | | 1018.62 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | Masl: | | 85.24-85.48m. | | References: | | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Nathan T. Arrington and Andrew (Drew) W. Sweet (2008-04-07 to 2008-04-23)
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