| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6611 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | foundation trench fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6611 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/06/08 | |
| Stratum: | 3%; ceramics, tiles, small rounded pebbles | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | This foundation trench fill represents the latest known foundation event for the east-west wall 5519. We know that this is the case because there is a second foundation trench, located at a lower elevation, which represents the earliest phase of wall that was once here. Perhaps this later phase of wall, which is not much later in time from the looks of the stratigraphy, represents an effort at installing a new threshold into this space, cutting away the upper courses of the old wall and positioning the larger blocks of the new western section of wall to receive a nicely-cut block. When all of the fill was removed, a tapered cut into bedrock was revealed, into which the large foundation blocks had been set. POST-EXCAVATION NOTE, 15-06-09, S.L.: Contexts 6663 and 6649, at least one of which underlies this context, were found to contain two joining coarse incised ware body fragments of the Frankish period, dating to the mid-13th century. These sherds will stratigraphically change the dates of every context that lies above them by as much as two centuries, of which this context is one. Until it is decided whether there is some other reason that this discrepancy might have occurred (e.g., these contexts need to be situated in a different place on the Harris Matrix), the dates will remain as they have been assigned on the basis of pottery/stratigraphy prior to discovering this discrepancy. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), cup. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 1 rim. ; Fineware. premedieval39 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 41 frag(s) 0.22 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 254 frag(s) 3.72 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 86 frag(s) 0.54 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | tack square head flat triangular pointed shank bent complete 1; iron nail head fragmentary round shank 1; strip bent with cement attached W. 0.025 L.indeterminant strip 1 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | 12th century | |
| Grid: | 268.69-265.96E, 1027.14-1027.25N | |
| XMin: | 265.96 | |
| XMax: | 268.69 | |
| YMin: | 1027.14 | |
| YMax: | 1027.25 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 83.69-84.21m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2009 2196 |