Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1200

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1200
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Deposit filling bothros south of fig tree
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1200
Page:		0
Date:		2013/06/06
Lot:		Lot 2013-026
Stratum:		Large pieces of tile, large and small subrounded stones, large and small bones, shell, roots, ceramic fragments, inclusions ca. 75%.
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the W. The soil color is light greyish black. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		Having just expanded to the new area south of where we've been working, we are unclear how this deposit, which seems to fill a circular bothros cut south of the fig tree, fits into any of the surrounding contexts. We will check the notebooks from 2007. Excavation of this bothros has yielded large amounts of pottery (coarse; fine, including with glaze), tile, stone, bone (large), shell, glass, and lots of slag. The pit is littered with roots from the fig tree. During cleaning pass 1189, we came down on at least three distinct deposits-- 1200 was distinguished by its blackish soil and semi-circular shape as a deposit filling a pit south of the fig tree. It had big and small inclusions in large quantities throughout. It's likely that it served as a dumped deposit, representing a period-of-use for cut 1211, and likely putting the pit out of use. N.B.: after pottery reading on 7-6-13, it is thought that the bothros actually had two separate contexts representing two different periods of use. It was suggested by G. Sanders that cut 1211 was actually filled by two deposits; this was because the top levels exposed pottery from the 3rd quarter of the 12th century CE, while the lower levels contained large amounts of pottery from the 11th c. CE. If this is indeed the case, and there were two distinct periods represented by deposit 1200, then pit 1211 had a longer period of use than initially thought. It seems as though pit 1211 served for dump/storage purposes, so large and diverse were the inclusions. Perhaps, rather than seeing this as two deposits that failed to be distinguished stratigraphically, the distinct phases of pottery could be attributed to the eastern cut currently containing reddish soil, which truncated pit 1211, and thus postdates pit 1211 and deposit 1200. Update 18/6/13: It is now clear that deposits 1200 and 1214, which filled pit 1211, was not a self-contained pit fill. The cut 1211 turned out to be arbitrary, and deposits 1200 and 1214 are actually part of a larger bothros, cut 1245. This larger bothros was excavated in 4 arbitrary levels, which will make deposit 1200 roughly equivilent to deposits 1234 and 1238; deposit 1214 is therefore roughly equivilent to deposits 1241 and 1244.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. slipped plain glazed quatrefoil, cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)4 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pedestal, plate. 3 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted II, bowl. 1 rim. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. scraffito 2, bowl. 3 rims. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. basin. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. mid-Byz, amphora. 4 rims. 25 handles. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. white ware, mug. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. mug. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .thickened rim; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), cup. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. gauged, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .with strainger; Fineware. glazed painted 2, carinated bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), lamp. 1 rim. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. white ware plain, cup. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. whiteware, kettle. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .one sherd incised Chi Alpha; Coarseware. pithos. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. polychrome II, plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .with rinclau; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. (saved to lot) .plain; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. (saved to lot) .exterior groove; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), unid. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .with flange; Coarseware. pithos lid. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .incised wavy line; Fineware. slipped slip-painted scraffito, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. white ware plain, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		29 frag(s) 0.44 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		315 frag(s) 11.95 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		133 frag(s) 3.98 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		Glass: 6 blue-green rims; 1 colorless rim; 1 blue-green handle; 1 bluegreen goblet base; 1 blue base; 1 colorless base; 5 colorless BS; 2 green BS; 2 blue-green BS (saved to lot); Iron nails: 6 (circular head, 2; square shaft, 4) (saved to lot); Circular slag amalgams (hearth blooms?): 17 (saved to lot); Slag: 29 (saved to lot)
Period:		Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:		11th-1/2 12th century (contaminated from Frankish pit)
Grid:		278.08-276.43E, 1007.19-1008.09N
XMin:		276.43
XMax:		278.08
YMin:		1007.19
YMax:		1008.09
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.9-87.07m.
References:		Coin: 2013 203