Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1197

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1197
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Leveling fill below clay floor 1195
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1197
Page:		0
Date:		2013/06/05
Stratum:		small chunks of plaster, little pottery, shell, carbonized ash and organics. Inclusions ca. 10-15% deposit.
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark brownish red. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy clay.
Notes:		This deposit was removed with the compact clay floor directly overlying, structure 1195. The dark red soil was strikingly distinct from previous levling/construction fills under our earlier clay floor, 1184. On the eastern side, close to the northeastern corner of the tile feature, was found a distinct patch of carbonized remains, excavated by A. Fields and J. Lamont the following day (6-6-13) with smaller tools and sampled for flotation. This area of concentrated carbonized remnants was ringed and contained by a white, unfired clay oblong feature pressed into or embedded into the hard earthen floor 1203. Before flotation, we recognized amid the charcoal and ash a possible carbonized nut or olive(?) in addition to charred smaller seeds. All of the concentrated carbonized deposit was removed for sampling. Excavation of this deposit, which came down on a floor of compact earth, has revealed that the cooking pot was embedded in this floor prior to its construction, rather than cut and deposited at a later date. At this point we were moved south of the fig tree into much earlier (12th-11th CE?) levels, with the long term plan of coming down again to levels contemporary with 1181-1198 t the south of wall 851. If this indeed happens, we might be able to view another slice of the life from this period, which we suspect might involved Classical into early Hellenistic domestic ritual. NB: while 1195 and 1197 are separate (structure & leveling fill/deposit), they were excavated together. See notes on 1195.
Context Pottery:		Coarseware. pithos. 1 handle. ; Fineware. Archaic6 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Classical2 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		8 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		14 frag(s) 0.08 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
Context Artifacts:		Possible obsidian: worked; piece of red wall plaster
Period:		4th c. B.C.
Chronology:		late 4th BC
Grid:		276.25-275.04E, 1012.73-1013.61N
XMin:		275.04
XMax:		276.25
YMin:		1012.73
YMax:		1013.61
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.59-85.69m.