| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5791 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Robbing trench | |
| Title: | cut for robbing trench of N-S wall | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5791 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/06/04 | |
| Description: | The context shape in plan is rectrangular. The top break of the cut is sharp. The sides of the cut are mixed. The break at the base of the cut is sharp. The base of the cut is flat. Truncation: truncated by robbing pit 5719. | |
| Notes: | The boundaries of the N-S robbing trench 5791 have been diffuse, not unlike those to the S in the robbing trench for the other N-S wall (i.e., context 5859). But the most puzzling part about the cut as it has currently been defined is that its position is not optimal for a robbing event. The trench rests above what appear to be half of the remaining stones of a N-S running wall- i.e., the stones that we have exposed are running inside of the section. To compound the complexity of this cut, the E edge was reather definitively designated after the excavation of context 5596, and we felt confident about the way that it cut. To conclusively defmonstrate that the trench was actually cut as we have designated, excavation should take place to the E, below the robbing trench of Wall 5473. Another puzzling feature of this robbing trench are the stones that rest partially within it to the N. These stones are roughly faced, running in what appears to be an L-shaped orientation. They are higher in elevation than the other stones and tiles exposed to the S, which have a clean line but are of uncertain function. They were also surrounded by a slightly softer fill (context 5778), with a significantly later Frankish date than the other fills of the wall, which were predominantly Late Byzantine- perhaps the stones are part of a later Frankish installation to the area, and do not relate to the robbing trench of the earlier wall. Part of the problem of interpreting the northernmost stones is answering the question of why they seem to corner, since wall 5562, the putative earliest feature in the area, lies directly to the N of this small wall spur. | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 1140-1170+ | |
| Grid: | 265.25-264.32E, 1035.62-1038.92N | |
| XMin: | 264.32 | |
| XMax: | 265.25 | |
| YMin: | 1035.62 | |
| YMax: | 1038.92 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.83m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) |
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