Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1181

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1181
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Lower Fill Between Walls 746 and 1138
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1181
Page:		0
Date:		2013/06/04
Stratum:		Ceramic sherds (fine and coarse), small sub-rounded stones, shell, large pieces of tile and ceramics. Inclusions c.20%
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey sand.
Notes:		We initially opened a new context for the thin darker soil immediately over the plaster, but foreman Thanassis continued to excavate further to the east-- into a deposit that was clearly a continuation of deposit 1181. We therefore decided to include this small patch of dark soil together with deposit 1181 so that this stratigraphically lower level would not be mixed with earlier material from the remnants of 1181. Excavation of 1181 revealed a square tile feature (1182) in the middle of the area, on which the fragments of the perirhanterion rested. We think that this perirhanterion might be Classical, and indeed all of our pottery seems much earlier than previous contexts. Although it is not entirely clear whether the tile/pottery feature was a surface or just part of the perirrhanterion basin (the tiles now embedded in the soil), we decided to call it a structure and plan it at a 1:10 scale. It appears that the feature was truncated at the east, as deposit 1181 continued below the level of the feature. Thanassis was able to identify a square cut to the east that looks to be in alignment with our tile feature-- perhaps the ghost of where the original eastern extent of the tile feature was embedded. Below the level of the tile feature 1182, in the disturbed area, a cooking pot was found in situ, having been cut by the foundation trench of Wall 851 (Cut 1166). This pot appears to be bedded up against a wall running NW-SE, but it is underneath several deposits that have yet to be dug. After planning the tile feature, we will remove it and excavate the thin layer of soil underneath as a separate context, as it lies directly over the plaster floor 1184. At this time, it appears as if the embedded cooking pot might belong to an earlier clay floor below 1184, but further excavation is necessary.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. pyxis. 1 rim. ; Fineware. Attic, fish plate. 1 rim. ; Fineware. kotyle. 1 rim. 4th c.? BCE; Fineware. Attic type, skyphos. 1 rim. ; Cooking ware. Lid. 3 rims. ; Fineware. Globular, lekythos. 2 rims. ; Coarseware. lekane. 1 rim. As C72 101; Fineware. Archaic, skyphos. 3 bodysherds. with added purple; Coarseware. Corinthian A, amphora. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Conventionalizing, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Conventionalizing, kotyle. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Ray-based, skyphos. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:		89 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		116 frag(s) 0.81 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		54 frag(s) 0.37 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		Circular Iron Object: 1, 27 mm Diameter; Iron nail: square shank 3, round shank 2; Pebble mosaic floor, 2
Period:		Hellenistic
Grid:		276.84-275.03E, 1012.77-1013.34N
XMin:		275.03
XMax:		276.84
YMin:		1012.77
YMax:		1013.34
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.64-85.96m.
References:		Object: C 2013 20