| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1087 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | E-W wall south of Cut 870 (ex-S747 west) | |
| Category: | Structure | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1087 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/04/19 | |
| Description: | Structure materials: limestone cobbles and small boulders, tile. Material size: Stone: max. .42x.39x.5, ave. .30x.20; tile .10x.03. Material finish: squared, roughly tooled. Material construction: squared, built to courses. Material bonding: mud plaster. Features: spolia (in foundation). | |
| Notes: | This is the western portion of a wall, formally numbered Structure 747 along with another fragment of a wall on the same line built in a similar style. Since the two structures do not physically touch, we decided to give the western preserved section a separate number, even though we still believe the two fragements (east and west) are related. After the remove of Context 1086, which may have been the lowest level of a robbing trench related to the wall, we can now see that the wall was built on a rubble foundation of unworked large cobbles in two lines. The superstrucuture of the wall is not preserved for the western half of this section of the wall, but we can see that the top level of the foundation has been preserved and runs under the preserved superstructure. The superstructure is preserved to a height of 5 to 6 courses. The top three courses are more regularly coursed, while the lower 2-3 courses are less clearly aligned. The wall is built with roughly squared limestone blocks, supplemented with tile between some courses and vertically between some stones. The tile does not function as a string course, but rather more like random cloisonne, with some stones partially outlined by tile. The stones in the foundation average 0.25x0.20, with a maximum size of 0.39x0.24. One stone in the foundation appears to be a small, reused column or columnar grave monument (cylindrical with a projecting taenia, diam. 0.21, pres. H. 0.17, taenia 0.03). The stones in the superstructure are more varied in size, with a maximum of 0.50x0.42x0.39 and an average of 0.30-0.50x0.30-0.20. Most of the stones are roughly finished and tool marks are visible on several. The largest wall block has rough diagonal tool marks and several other blocks appear to have claw-toothed chisel marks, or other chisel marks. | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 11th-early 12th c. CE | |
| Grid: | 258.56-255.66E, 1010.03-1010.72N | |
| XMin: | 255.66 | |
| XMax: | 258.56 | |
| YMin: | 1010.03 | |
| YMax: | 1010.72 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.73-86.3m. |
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