| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1159 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Lower fill of pit 1163 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1159 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/05/30 | |
| Stratum: | Carbon, plaster, small stones, shell, pottery, glass, slag, mosaic/pebbled plaster, composing ca. 20% deposit. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is moderate down to the E. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey sand. | |
| Notes: | This deposit represent the first (lower) fill of pit 1163 and represents a distinct earlier pit fill than deposit 1145. This distinction was clear both in respect to soil composition and inclusions: 1) The soil composition of 1159 was a reddish brown, fine clayey sand, while deposit 1145 was a dark, greyish brown silt. 2) The later fill, 1145, contained ca. 70% inclusions--primarily coarse building materials of stone, tile, large fragments of coarseware pottery, marble fragments, etc. This deposit (1159) contained very few tiles and stones. The inclusions were finer (small fragments of mixed finewares, plaster (some painted), shell, and carbon). The top plan of this deposit was at a much higher level at the west sloping toward the east, which suggests that the deposit was dumped into the pit form the west side. Perhaps this fill represents a period-of-use for the newly cut bothros (dump, storage pit?), while deposit 1145 represents a destruction of a nearby structure, dumped into pit 1163, putting the pit out of use. At a depth of 84.73m MASL, when the sloped portion of the fill at the west was leveled, we noticed a cut mark around the southern and western edge of the pit. Foreman Thanassis thought initially that it might be a grave, but it did not amount to anything. With the pit now cleared of its fill, we will turn back to the room confined by walls 851, 746, 5334, and 1138. Update 16/6/13: After further excavation of this area and pottery analysis, it now seems most likely that 1159 was NOT the lower fill of this Early Byzantine pit 1163, but rather equivilent to the fill of our Late Roman robbing trench 1178 (filled by 1170). The two deposits were very similar in respect to soil composition and finds, containing much early material from the Archaic and Classical periods. Thus, 1159 was an eastern continuation of the Late Roman robbing trench 1178, which was cut into by the Early Byzantine pit 1163. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. Roman thinwalled, beaker. 1 rim. ; Fineware. Roman thinwalled, beaker. 1 bodysherd. white fabric; Cooking ware. Early Roman, stewpot-C-2-4. 1 rim. ; Fineware. Attic Red-washed, pitcher. ; Fineware. shallow bowl, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .as lot 10-50; Fineware. Conventionalizing, kotyle. 2 rims. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 132 frag(s) 0.32 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 279 frag(s) 3.3 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 68 frag(s) 0.58 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Nondescript bronze instrument: broken on both sides, rounded, L. .043 m; Th. .0025 m; cf. MF 8831 with similarly blunt edge & 8333, a possible bronze surgical instrument.; Small unidentified square metal object with broken edges: L. .031 m; Th. .0052 m); Painted plaster: 2. 1 red (L. .02 m; Th. .003 m); 1 light blue (L. .048 m; Th. .007 m); mall sub-rounded bronze fragment: Diam. .015 m); 4 small glass sherds: 3 colorless (1 with decorative band, Th. .006 m; 1 eggshell thin, Th. .0001; 1 Th. .014 m); 1 green sherd, Th. .01 m) | |
| Period: | Early Byzantine (610-802 AD) | |
| Chronology: | (with much earlier material from Archaic-Hellenistic) | |
| Grid: | 278.16-276.53E, 1013.44-1015.43N | |
| XMin: | 276.53 | |
| XMax: | 278.16 | |
| YMin: | 1013.44 | |
| YMax: | 1015.43 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.52-85.17m. | |
| References: | Coin: 2013 199 |