Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1053

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1053
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Tile layer below Baulk 1052
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1053
Page:		0
Date:		2013/04/15
Lot:		Lot 2013-005
Stratum:		60%, tile, ceramic sherds, fine pebbles, glass
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the SW. The soil color is very dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		We opened this context to remove the tile layer exposed by the removal of context 1052. This tile layer was adjacent to the large tile layer removed at 1046. Although the top elevation of this context was lower and it was covered by the firmly packed and relatively tile-free context 1052, we believe it might be a continuation of the same tile layer as 1046. In that case, the top of this area would have been somewhat lower than the larger area of 1046 anmd would have been covered by an accumulation of soil before the entire tile layer was leveled with 1028. Some of the tiles in this layer, particularly those in th southern part of the context, are very large with joining fragments (ca. 0.28 by 0.28m), while the remaining tiles are similar in size to those from 1046. In this context we also removed the large flat tiles at the bottom of the former Cut 871, as they were contiguous with thew other flat tiles at the south end of the context and seemed to be a part of the same tile deposit. This whole area is separated from another concentration of tiles just north of Cut 809 by a tumble of cobbles adjacent to structure 1047. Much like this context 1046, this context produced many fragments of glass. We closed this context when we came down on the dark yellowish brown, tile-free layer below at the same elevation as the close of 1046. It is now clear that both this context and 1046 nested on the same soil, which also gives support to our theory that they came from the same destruction event.
Context Pottery:		Coarseware. Gaza, amphora. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. palestinian1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. early roman1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. cloche lid1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. large basin red slipped in2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot as Hesperia 1999 #181 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Geometric, skyphos. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. preroman8 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. late roman amphora 2, table amphora. 1 handle. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Late roman amphora 2, amphora. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		10 frag(s) 0.03 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		85 frag(s) 2.94 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		33 frag(s) 0.5 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass clear greenish, high flaring ring foot to wide shallow bowl or plate, 2nd-4th cent (saved to lot); glass clear greenish, rounded somewhat concave jar base with cylindrical sides, mended from 2 bs (saved to lot); iron, rod, square, 1 (saved to lot); lamp, unidentified, discus, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear yellowish, round flat base mended from 3 bs, plus bs 2 (saved to lot); glass clear pale blueish green, tubular goblet foot 2 (including 1 with knop stem). After mid-5th cent (saved to lot); glassy slag, 1 (saved to lot); iron, tear drop-shaped, 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail, square shank, 2 (saved to lot); tile, 8 (saved to lot); wall plaster, red, 2 (saved to lot); wall plaster, yellow, 1 (saved to lot)
Period:		Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:		second half 6th century CE
Grid:		258.51-255.72E, 1013.11-1015.9N
XMin:		255.72
XMax:		258.51
YMin:		1013.11
YMax:		1015.9
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.34-85.57m.