Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1177

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1177
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Dump fill along north edge of lime pit 882
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1177
Page:		0
Date:		2013/06/03
Stratum:		angular cobbles and stones 40%; tile 10%; pottery; cut architectural pieces, glass, bone, charcoal
Description:		The soil color is dark brownish black. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:		This is a very mixed, loose fill which seems to be the remainder of the robbing trench fill to the east of wall 1087. No cut number was ever given to this activity, and the fills have been removed by various teams in the past two seasons. (During session 1 of 2013, vigorous cleaning immediately above this context resulted in the removal of a layer of soil of uncertain content, shape, and depth, which accordingly never received a proper context number.) Our contribution, 1177, is a triangular swath immediately north of the lime pit 886 which was truncated by the trench (and wall 1087?), although Thanasis excavated into the area immediately under the lime pit while chasing the rocks--so this deposit predates the lime pit, which was set on top of it? Blocks certainly extended over the line of the wall and under the lime deposit. We could also see looking under the area of the lime pit from the north that this rocky deposit does not continue to the east but rather stops about 0.85m from the east edge of the pit. With further cleaning, the large cut stones and architectural pieces almost look to have fallen off wall 1087 to the south. The style of this wall has much spoliated material as these blocks seem to be. Among the blocks are two joining pieces of what looks to be a short altar with lower molding with two preserved corners (0.40 length x 0.32 width x 0.22 height) and a large section of a brick floor (0.043 x 0.042 x 0.08 thick), with bricks 0.09 x 0.045 x 0.04, partially covered by a thin plaster layer. After removing the rest of the blocks and soil, we exposed the beginning of what appears to be a tile destruction layer which we hope resembles 1080 and 1046, and continues south under the area of the lime pit.
Context Pottery:		Coarseware. Late Roman Amphora 21 handle. ; Coarseware. As Hesp 2005 1-39, basin. 1 rim. ; Cooking ware. Cloche, lid. 1 rim. ; Fineware. PreRoman33 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		33 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		87 frag(s) 1.9 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		51 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		marble, white, architectural molding, two course convex torus divided by raised lines; bronze, flattened triangular head, 1, misc. unidentified, 2; Lamp Type 27, handle 1; metal, round head nail 1, nail shaft 3; bronze, finger ring, diam. 0.012, 1; glass, opaque white, rounded thickened rim 2, folded tubular ring base 1, bs 2; glass, clear blue, bs 1, clear pale blue, bs 3, clear green, bs 1; wall plaster, yellow 1, red 1
Period:		Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:		First half 5th century AD
Grid:		259.99-258.54E, 1009.97-1010.37N
XMin:		258.54
XMax:		259.99
YMin:		1009.97
YMax:		1010.37
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.37-85.85m.
References:		Coin: 2013 202