| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 821 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Continuation of fill from pit 647 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 821 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/05/14 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2012-029 | |
| Stratum: | Glass, pottery, tile, iron buckle, shell, boulders ~30 cm, cobbles, pebbles, bronze. Inclusions ~50%. | |
| Description: | The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | This is the continuation of fill in pit 647. Large quantities of tile and cobbles. Some large pieces (5+ cm) of bone and shell. Some chunks of carbonized wood ~2 cm. Bronze spindle hook. Concentration of carbon found in SE center portion - see soil sample #1. Green tessera. Coin #76 found in sieve. Large ~2 cm white tessera. More stones found in S, more tile in N. More inclusions in lower layers - ca. 70%. Context not finished; left open at end of day, with 70 buckets sieved. 15 May 2012 - We encountered a harder, more chalky soil in the S portion of the pit, with patches of yellowish clay. Since the soil has changed and since the pit is now excavated to a considerable depth below the remainder of the trench, we are closing this context and moving to the N to excavate a small pit (828) cut into the surrounding clay. Panos tells us this pit (821) is not finished, however. At the end of this context, the SE border of the pit was lined with irregular , large (~50 cm) boulders cut from bedrock - 3 stacked on top of one another, with tile and smaller stones in a gap in the W between the first and third. Another bedrock boulder could be distinguished in the middle of the S border (exposed by 819). The N face of one of the SE boulders (the second in the stack) seems more carefully worked. It lies just beneath the lowest visible course of the corner of the E-W wall we removed as 817, and intrudes slightly on the line of that wall. The wall therefore postdates the placement of the middle boulder in the stack. The faces of the other boulders are very rough, either because they were originally cut that way or because of erosion - the stone is very friable and crumbly. 80 buckets sieved today for a total of 150 from this context. The pit is sloping outward as it continues down, so that the upper levels are slightly undercut. 4 June 2012: Note: There seems to have been a join between a cookpot rim in 803 and one in either 796 or 821. This seems strange, since the two were from different pits (C430 for 803, and C848 for 796 and 821). Either the pottery tags were somehow switched between 803 and 802 (which borders C848), or we have clear evidence that both pits were open simultaneously. - RM | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. veneto, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .sgraffito design; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 2 rims. 12 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. miscellaneous 13th c.33 rims. 3 handles. 99 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. bowl, bowl. 13 rims. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. folded rim2 rims. (saved to lot) .folded rim; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped and glaze painted, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .gridiron; Fineware. prefrankish22 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. stopper1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260)4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .no overglaze; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), bowl. 5 rims. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), pitcher. 4 rims. 2 handles. 25 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. gunsenin III amphora (1200-1300)1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 2 rims. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. stamnos or pitcher - 158 body sherds, stamnos. 18 rims. 19 handles. 158 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .matte-painted. 158 bs; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325) (saved to lot) .blue and manganese; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), pitcher. 1 rim. 1 handle. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. bowl. 2 rims. 4 bodysherds. 1 complete profile. (saved to lot) .matte-painted; Coarseware. trefoil mouth pitcher. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .matte-painted; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)4 rims. 2 handles. (saved to lot) .folded rim; Fineware. premedieval34 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 289 frag(s) 2.58 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 1450 frag(s) 18.55 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 309 frag(s) 3.48 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron, spindle hook, 1 (saved to lot); bronze instrument/needle/hook, cp MF4608, 1 (saved to lot); iron, head, 2 (saved to lot); iron, blade?, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, rim, 1 (saved to lot); glass, opaque, tessera, irridescent green, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, base, 1 (saved to lot); iron, belt buckle (saved to lot); glass, clear, blue, bs, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, bottle, bs, 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail, complete, round shaft, 7 (saved to lot); glass, clear, blue tinge, bottle, base, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, strip, folded, for belt sheath as MF 5167?, 3 (saved to lot); marble, revetment, pinkish, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, applied blue threads, similar to 91-16, bs, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, Corinth XII 744, base, 1 (saved to lot); marble, white, fragment of acanthus from Corinthian capital, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, rim, restored diam. 8 mm, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail, round shaft, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, greenish yellow tinge, MF 7515, base, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, blue tinge, bs, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, Corinth XII, 744, bs, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, greenish tinge, tubular rim or base, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, strip, pierced for attachment, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, rim, restored diam. 7 mm, 2 (saved to lot); bronze, spindle hook, 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail, giant nail head?, 1 (saved to lot); marble, revetment, white with grey, 2 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, painted decoration in opaque red and yellow as Corinth XII 747, bs, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, light bluish tinge, rim, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, bs, 9 (saved to lot); iron, nail, rectangular shaft, shaft, 4 (saved to lot); glass, opaque, red, tubular ring foot, base, inventoried, 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | end of 13th to early 14th | |
| Grid: | 268.51-266.5E, 1005.76-1007.83N | |
| XMin: | 266.5 | |
| XMax: | 268.51 | |
| YMin: | 1005.76 | |
| YMax: | 1007.83 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.3-85.78m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Jonida Martini, and Rachel McCleery (2012-04-30 to 2012-05-19) Object: MF 2012 28 Object: MF 2012 29 Coin: 2012 76 |
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