| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 602 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Tile collapse west of wall 306 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 602 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/06/03 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2009-102 | |
| Stratum: | 90% roof tiles | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is well sorted. | |
| Notes: | Deposit 602 is a tile rich deposit extending westward from wall 306 into the scarp at 255.5 E and northward from wall 376. Though they did not extend all the way into the robbing trench 596 where the north wall of the space would have stood. The deposit has been interpreted as a tile collapse rather than redeposit material because of the aspect and completeness of the tile fragments; several tiles seem to be largely complete, if not intact, and they are lying at angles that suggest fall rather than dumping. The tiles are being reserved of weighing and counting, as well as being laid out in order to look for joins in the hops of mending up complete tiles. The deposit is several layers of tile deep as much as 3 overlapping tiles. The tiles are held in a mixed matrix. There is white clay associated with wall treatment and the sealing of roofs as well as a light yellowish brown sandy silt. It is expected that the removal of the tile collapse will reveal more of the surface revealed by the excavation of the dumped lens 594. It remains to be determined what the relationship is between the tile fall 602 and the tile rich deposit in the adjacent space east of wall 306. This other tile deposit has very complete tiles at aspects reminiscent of collapse, though they are molded in the center of the room. Individual tiles that continued westward into the scarp were broken, as they were sitting on the floor and it is not expected that we will excavate further west of the scarp at 255.5. The removal of the tile fragments revealed a dark reddish brown clay floor with patches of white clay deposited by the melting of the surface treatment of the walls. Many of the tile fragments are substantial though only few formed a complete tile from the efforts to find joins between the fragments. In order to best capitalize on the effort made to find joining fragments, the most complete tiles have been boxed separately and they have all been numbered before being put in zembles. The total count of the tile fragments is 408 and the total weight is 183.3 k. The tiles have both pan and cover tiles represented, of various fabrics (pink, yellow, orange, red, and green). The Byzantine signature decoration is common. Many are quite friable, suggesting less than ideal firing, such that it is possible that better tiles from the rest of the house were salvaged, but in the area the lesser quality tiles were left to collapse. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. Byzantine4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. premedieval9 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. coarse incised, slipped style V (1200-1220), bowl. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. blue frit, plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), bowl. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 24 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 87 frag(s) 0.99 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 67 frag(s) 0.3 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear bluish bs 2, colorless bs 1, yellowish rim 1, goblet with tubular foot mf 1150, cup with everted tickened lip with added blue 1, goblet foot as mf 6539,; shell murex 1; iron tapering strip; tile cover Byz cp 4 (saved to lot); bronze strip with finished edge 1, pierced bronze strip; tile pan 2 (saved to lot); Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 4 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 13 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 8 fragment(s). ; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- metapodial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 complete example(s). ; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 complete example(s). ; Bone- radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 5 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- tooth of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s). | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 13th early 14th | |
| Grid: | 257.01-255.5E, 999.17-1002.01N | |
| XMin: | 255.5 | |
| XMax: | 257.01 | |
| YMin: | 999.17 | |
| YMax: | 1002.01 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 87.03-87.37m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Jody Cundy and Dina Boero (2009-06-19 to 2009-06-20) Image: digital 2009 2188 Image: digital 2009 2222 Coin: 2009 178 |
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