| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1031 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Baulk west of Drain 1026 and north of Pit 870 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1031 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/04/11 | |
| Stratum: | 30% inclusions; tile, ceramic sherds, abundant fine and medium pebbles, small cobbles, charcoal | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level down to the S. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | This context is the removal of part of the baulk to the north of Pit 870. It is defined by the reddish soil to its west with abundant tile, the pit to its south, the northern limit of the excavation area, and the harder soil to its east, adjacent to the drain, S1026. It seems that the soil may have been dumped into a robbing trench of a wall that runs N-S and was completely robbed out and then later cut by pit 870 to the south. The wall may have continued beyond to the area of the southern baulk of Cut 870, since what appears to be a robbing trench of a wall with the same orientation is visible in the southern baulk of the cut. We found a bronze coin (2013-54) while excavting the context. There is are many tiles and angular cobbles, but no larger stones. Also, we found a small ivory button, bead, or pin head in this layer. We stropped digging the deposit when we came down onto a firm, reddish-brown soil. This horizontal layer seems to go under the thick fill of broken tiles visible in the west and south scarps of Pit 871. Therefore, the robbing trench of the wall cut through the layer of broken tile, which can be seen also in the western baulk of the robbing trench. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. mid Byzantine, amphora. 1 rim. 10 handles. ; Coarseware. basin with outturned rim1 rim. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 1 rim. ; Fineware. ww, mug. ; Fineware. preroman24 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 rim. ; Coarseware. mid Byzantine, pitcher. 2 handles. ; Fineware. premediaeval7 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. pedestalled bowl1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 34 frag(s) 0.25 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 262 frag(s) 9.4 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 86 frag(s) 1.58 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | lamp handle, 1; glass clear colorless, bs 1 with small raised ridge; glass clear yellowish, window glass or inlay 2, bs 1; glass clear pale greenish blue, goblet stem with only slightly bulbous knop; slag, 1; shell purple, 1; glass clear emerald green, ring foot 1, plate or shallow bowl, possibly cast, restored diam. 0.075, cf. Agora XXXIV #160-162 (but these are colorless) (saved to lot); glass clear unk color, rim 1, bs 2; glass clear pale yellow, inturned rim 1, restored diam. 0.10, cf. Jalame pg 61 #164-165; glass clear yellowish green, tubular goblet base 1, thickened straight goblet stem 1 (probably from same vessel), cf Agora XXXIV #355; glass, greenish, clear, 2; iron, nail, square shank, 3; sombrero lid, 1; wall plaster, red, 3; glass clear pale greenish blue, goblet foot 1 like MF 7240-7241 | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 10th-11th c. CE | |
| Grid: | 259.5-258.59E, 1015.03-1016.02N | |
| XMin: | 258.59 | |
| XMax: | 259.5 | |
| YMin: | 1015.03 | |
| YMax: | 1016.02 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85-85.71m. | |
| References: | Object: MF 2013 3 Coin: 2013 54 |
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