Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 129

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 129
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Leveling fill for earliest clay floor associated w
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1100
Context:		129
Page:		0
Date:		2007/05/15
Lot:		Lot 2007-039
Stratum:		Inclusions 40%: few thin roots, shell, pottery, tile, bone, stones (small cobbles, coarse pebbles, medium pebbles, fine pebbles), marble fragments.
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the SE. Bottom slope of the context is slight. The soil color is dark pinkish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		[Recorded in the field with Kris Lorenzo]. EXCAVATION NOTES: Large basket of soil under clay floors and extending to the east. A more reddish soil has primarily been exposed under B129. Also a harder lighter deposit in area ca. 271.50E and 1003.31N to 1004.49N (excavated as B132). The bottom of B192 also starting to uncover the top of what may turn into a N-S wall, perpendicular to the potential E-W wall projecting into pit cut = B71. On second thought, it is more likely that there is just an E-W wall that projects into the pit, and that the stones to the N. and S. come from this wall. [Later note: nope, the first impressions was correct! There is a N-S wall, that appears to make a corner with the E-W wall]. In the area where the corner of the walls was discovered (ca. 1006N to 1007.20N and 268E to 269.50E), it may be overdug; the entire area is noticeably lower in elevation. I believe the foreman got carried away in defining the top of the wall stones.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. spotted, slip painted (1100-1200) (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted III, slipped (1160-1200)1 rim. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. measles, slipped slip painted sgraffito (1140-1160) (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-medieval17 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. hole mouthed stewpot4 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. undecorated, stamnos/amphora. 54 handles. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. blue frit, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 15 rims. 32 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260)10 rims. 19 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. sgraffito5 rims. 20 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260)2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. burnished, pitcher. 2 handles. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. polychrome, cup. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. lusterware, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww cut (700-1120)3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Sgraffito, slipped style II (1140-1170)8 rims. 11 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pilgrim flask. 1 handle. 9 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. sgraffito10 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pilgrim flask. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, stamnos. 4 rims. 14 handles. 52 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stewpot (1000-1100)3 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. coarse incised, slipped style VI (1200-1220) (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stewpot (1100-1270)6 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. light on dark II, slip painted (1160-1200)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, pilgrim flask. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted II/III, slipped (1140-1160)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. maghrab1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Ottoman II as see 88-02, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1100-1125)6 rims. 15 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225), bowl. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, lid. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. gunsenin III amphora (1200-1300)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. aegean sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260)1 rim. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. early champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1170-1200), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		236 frag(s) 4.2 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		969 frag(s) 20.59 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		311 frag(s) 4.14 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass greenish clear incomplete (cf. MF-4068) handle 1 (saved to lot); bronze spindle hook complete with wood frags inside L. 0.025 (cf. Corinth XII 1225) 1 (saved to lot); glass pale green bs 1 (saved to lot); bronze wire with loop and attached link at one end perhaps for a lamp L. .091 (cf. MF-5801) 1 (saved to lot); tile 32 (saved to lot); obsidian lump L. 0.034 W. 0.023 (saved to lot); candle stick lamp base 1 bs 1 handle 1 rim 2 (saved to lot); ceramic waster tile 1 pitcher 2 (saved to lot); bone sus mandible 4 maxilla 1 ovis mandible 1 maxilla 1 molar 4 bos mandible 1 unid 142 (saved to lot); shell nacre 1 (saved to lot); bronze strip flat folded over L. 0.019 W. 0.016 (saved to lot); pebble pressed flooring 2 (saved to lot); glass colorless clear bs 1greenish clear bs 1 colorless clear with several opaque brown flecks 1 colorless clear with raised knob 3 (saved to lot); glass greenish clear incomplete base Diam. 0.06 (cf. MF-68212) 1 (saved to lot); bronze wire bent with loop at one end perhaps from a lamp (cf. MF-5801) 1 (saved to lot); glass prunted beaker bs 1 (saved to lot); iron slag lump 2 (saved to lot)
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		mid-13th CE with 1 contamination
Grid:		274.8-267.3E, 1001.7-1007.2N
XMin:		267.3
XMax:		274.8
YMin:		1001.7
YMax:		1007.2
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		87.23-87.42m.
Is Above:		134
Is Below:		122
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-05-18) Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lina Kokkinou and Angela Ziskowski (2007-05-21 to 2007-06-09) Coin: 2007 185 Coin: 2007 186 Coin: 2007 189