| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1058 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Hard packed layer below tile layer 1046 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1058 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/04/15 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2013-007 | |
| Stratum: | 30%; tile, small cobble, small round pebbles, ceramic sherds, bone, mortar, shell, glass, carbon | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level down to the W. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | This fill is located below the tile destruction layer 1046. We excavated it in order to be able to understadt the tile fills, which overlaid it and were related to tile destruction layer 1046, and in order to understand the activities to the south of the Turkish house in general. This context is extremely imporant for th interpretation of activities in the area, since it is first large continuous deposit in this part of the excavation area. This context included a large amount of pottery, some broken tile, very high quantity of bone and charcoal, glass, small pebbles, and even one carbonized seed. At the lower level, pieces of mortar were found, too. The layer also yielded a lot of charcoal, and we collected large pieces by hand and also collected two buckets of soil for wet sieving. Since the context includes large quantities of building material and ceramics, bone, and charcoal, it might represent a refuse dump. The context was quite large, so Thanasis and Thanasis dug it into two passes, each approximately 5-10cm deep. Underneath we came down upon a later of tile, which is quite thick, being visible in the western scarp of Cut 890. This layer, however, continues also under S1047 and the apsidal layer made of cobbles to the south, and hence, we will stop digging in this area in order to remove these superimposed contexts first. 16/4/2013 After Guy Sanders had examined the pottery, he concluded that it was different from the dumped material in context 1046. The pottery included some imitation N African lamps and the coarse wares were different from those found in context 1046. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. preroman15 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Cooking pot as Hesperia 2005#40a13 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Palestinian, amphora. 3 handles. 24 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. AfRS unidentified2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Late Roman Amphora 1, amphora. 9 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. unidentified RS burnished spirals, Phokian?1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. red-painted trefoil-mouthed pitcher, pitcher. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. PRS, casserole. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. AfRS? Form 611 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LRC form 8?1 rim. (saved to lot) .to be inventoried; Coarseware. micaceous water jar, jar. 2 handles. 38 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. basin, as Hesperia 2005, 245, basin. 4 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LRC form 22 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Gaza, amphora. 2 rims. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. unidentified amphora, amphora. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Cooking pot as Hesperia 2005#392 rims. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. lid, lid. 7 rims. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. non-micaceous, as Hesperia 2005, 2342 rims. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. cloche lid, cloche lid. 4 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. geometric, skyphos. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. basin with rolled rim, basin. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. red-painted amphora, amphora. 1 rim. 1 handle. 15 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. LRC form 31 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. bowl, as Hesperia 2005, 2-42/43, bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Eastern Aegean cooking fabric as Hesperia 2005#2342 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. early roman11 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Late Roman amphora 2, amphora. 5 rims. 5 handles. 23 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. AfRS unidentified1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. unidentified Red slip, bowl. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 40 frag(s) 0.26 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 974 frag(s) 15.57 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 512 frag(s) 6.66 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | lamp, north african imitation circular lamp, base, 1, shoulder, 2, handle, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, strip, bent, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear colorless, bs 7 (one with scalloped edge), rim 1, outward thickened very fine (saved to lot); wall plaster, red, 2 (saved to lot); stopper, ceramic, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, loop, 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail, square shank, 8 (saved to lot); iron, rod, square,1 (saved to lot); glass clear pale blue, rim 2, inward thickened (saved to lot); glass clear unk color, rounded edge 1, bs 25, rim 1 slightly inturned and rounded (saved to lot); bronze, lump, 2 (saved to lot); iron, lump, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail head, 1 (saved to lot); slag, iron, 2 (saved to lot); slag, 2 (saved to lot); tessera, stone, white, 1 (saved to lot); cupellation bowl, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear pale blue, intact goblet base with uneven knop stem, cf. MF 7242 and Agora XXXIV #344 (saved to lot); stopper, stone, 1 (saved to lot); lamp, type 33, imitation african, nozzle, 1 (saved to lot); lamp, north african, nozzle, 1, (exquist detail-jewled cross (saved to lot); iron, tack, 1 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish, flat bs 4, thickened rim 1 (saved to lot); glass clear unk color, goblet base(?) 4 (saved to lot); lamp, type 28, handle, 1, nozzle, 1 (saved to lot); modified sherd, circle, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, lump, 4; formerly coin 2013-78 (saved to lot); glass clear colorless, rim 1, inturned and rounded, with light horizontal lines on exterior (saved to lot); glass clear pale olive green, bs 3, large, thick, for vessel with narrow cylindrical body (saved to lot); glass clear window or inlay, olive green 2, light blue 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 5th-early 6th c. CE | |
| Grid: | 258.47-255.65E, 1013.46-1015.95N | |
| XMin: | 255.65 | |
| XMax: | 258.47 | |
| YMin: | 1013.46 | |
| YMax: | 1015.95 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.15-85.42m. | |
| References: | Objects (4) Coins (8) |
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