Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1120

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1120
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Leveling fill beneath drain 1026
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1120
Page:		0
Date:		2013/05/15
Stratum:		10-50% inclusions(top to bottom); tile, ceramics, bone, glass, head of female terra cotta figurine; lots of painted wall plaster
Description:		Top slope of the context is moderate down to the N. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		We are excavating the layer of fill beneath the tile drain that was removed as context 1118. Beneath this layer is a tile-heavy fill that probably continues on the E side of Pit 1117. There is at first little in this fill except for medium pebbles and tile fragments, but soon we start coming on a lot of fragments of mostly red painted wall plaster, similar to what we've been seeing in the neighboring contexts of 1113-1116. We are digging this layer to get to the tile fill beneath--we want to see if the tile fills (possible robbing trenches) to the W and E (north of Wall 918) are equal and cut by pit 1117, in order to understand the order in which the walls 918 and the robbed walls were built and pit 1117 was dug. We will leave a thin baulk at the N edge of this context to prevent contamination from the 1970s excavations area. When we came down equal to the elevation of the narrow baulk to the west, Panos pointed out that the soil to the W was whiter, but we couldn't yet determine whether it was left on purpose, so at first we kept it as a baulk, but it later turns out that this strip contains the same percentage of plaster as the rest of 1120 so we dug it up. RV speculates that the plaster was from the wall that was robbed from the trench immediately to the W (1121/1122). The further down we dig, the bigger the chunks of plaster we come upon. Higher up there were almost no inclusions but as we get deeper there is about 50% plaster chunks. 15/5: as we go further down, less plaster appears, and thus we end this context. Redder soil beneath.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. preroman162 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. cooking bowl, bowl. 1 rim. as hesperia 2005 2-42; Fineware. arratine, plate. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		165 frag(s) 0.22 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		331 frag(s) 2.52 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		138 frag(s) 0.69 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass, 2 blue clear; 1 white clear bs; glass, clear greenish yellow, tall base ring foot, similar to Agora XXXIV 261-264; wall plaster, red, white, black, orange, 1 (saved to lot); wall plaster white 28; 615 red; 2 purple; 3 red white and blue; 23 black with spots; 5 black; red white and green stripes, 15; red and white stripes, 1; orange, 1; blue, 15; wall plaster, red with spots, 1; terracotta figurine, female head with bouffant hairstyle, somewhat close to MF-9001 (saved to lot); iron, 4 nails: L. 49 Diam. 18; L. 51 Diam. 15; L. 49 Diam. 37 mm; 1 white marble revetment; iron slag, 2; iron, 1 lump; glass, clear colorless, 1 bs; 1 obsidian; bronze item with comb decoration, somewhat similar to MF-1979 (sawlike instrument of bronze) (saved to lot); wall plaster, blue with green line, 2
Period:		Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD)
Chronology:		3rd-4th c NPD
Grid:		260.24-259.51E, 1014.85-1017.49N
XMin:		259.51
XMax:		260.24
YMin:		1014.85
YMax:		1017.49
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.36-85.78m.
References:		Object: MF 2013 12 Coin: 2013 178 Coin: 2013 179