| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 338 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | pit fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 338 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/27 | |
| Stratum: | boulders, cobbles, tiles, pottery bone 70% | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light reddish black. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We open context 338 after an arbitrary closing of the pit fill, context 336. We do so because we cannot see a true cut along the N for the pit filled by context 336. Since we are a bit confused as to soil relationships, we think it best to take the next pass and any other subsequent passes as a separate context. Panos immediately comes down on a new feature in our N scarp. H e has found what appears to be a stone lining for a well or built pithos. Above these cobbles used for lining, we can see boulders. We surmise that what we have here is a later pit that has partially cut an earlier well. The bouders on top of the cobble lining were likely used to close off the well/pithos. Then, at a later time, a larger pit was dug down into the S half o fthis well/pithos, truncating it. It is possible some of the boudlers removed in context 336 were part of this later closing off of the well/pithos, but had been subsequently displaced by the later pit activiy. Also, Panos kept separte the pottery he found in the cobble-lined ares, so we keep this pottery separtely, as abeing associated with the earlier wee/pithos, not the later pit fill we are diggin as 338. We suspend digging in this pit, according to the following circumstances: Panos has found more of the cobble lining curving Sw out of the N scarp. However, the cobble lining does not go all the way around. Eithe rthe later pit has here disturbed the lining, or the lining has fallen inside the well. Also, an alternate theory has arisen. Panos thinks perhaps the 'later pit' may in fact be an irregular cutting for the original foundation of the well (it now seems to be definitely to be a well, not a built pithos). Later excavation in this area should decide the issue, but for no we suspen diggin here, since we cannot safely dig in proper sequence. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. coarse incised, slipped style VI (1200-1220), bowl. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. amphora. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 1 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 105 frag(s) 3.98 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 23 frag(s) 0.53 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | mid 13th century | |
| Grid: | 261.7-259.79E, 1002.43-1004.35N | |
| XMin: | 259.79 | |
| XMax: | 261.7 | |
| YMin: | 1002.43 | |
| YMax: | 1004.35 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.29-86.5m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Joseph Lillywhite, Joel Rygorsky, Matthew Sears, Martin Wells (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) Image: digital 2008 0148 |
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