| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5013 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Clay floor | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 5013 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/05/04 | |
| Stratum: | The floor itself is a light greenish yellow, firm clayey silt with less than 2% inclusions. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the SE. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the SEThe soil color is light greenish yellow. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is well sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | We revealed whatever there was of this clay floor in the context above it, 5011. In this basket we are removing the floor itself. The floor is a light greenish yellow clayey silt which is sticky and clumpy, with very few (less than 2%) inclusions. As we are removing the floor, we can see that there is no sub-floor: the floor is sitting directly on the redder soil beneath it. However, the soil sitting under the floor in the E half of the room appears different from that under the floor in the W half, so this will be two baskets when we begin to remove that layer. We suspect that this is either the floor of a room, intentionally laid here for that purpose; or perhaps an amount of clay building material which was left here and settled, perhaps material for covering a wall. The fact that the clay deposit is much thicker and more regular at the S end of the room, and it lessens and thins out towards the N end of the room, extending two "fingers" of clay into the room, may suggest that it was not laid here in the form that we found it. It is also possible that the original surface extended over the rest of the area of the room, but that the excavators removed it in 1961. We were not able to establish that based on their notebooks. Significant finds included six coins in this basket, but it should also be noted that a number of coins (6 in B5011 and 1 in B5001) were found resting on this floor. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. cloche lid1 rim. ; Fineware. ItSig; Coarseware. gaza, amphora. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre-late roman55 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. MWJ1 handle. 5 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. basin. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. palestinian, amphora. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. lrc form 1 or 2; Coarseware. Late Roman amphora II1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 50 frag(s) 0.28 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 141 frag(s) 1.88 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 73 frag(s) 0.5 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bronze lump 3 flattened 1; shell unid 1; lamp type 27 (Corinth IV.2) discus painted 1; bone stylus incomplete 1; wall plaster Hellenistic black with white line 1; bronze nail head 1; glass clear colorless BS 7; glass clear blue BS 3; bone bos molar 1; glass clear yellowish Diam. 0.06 rim 1Diam. 0.09 rim 1; bone ovis mandible 1; bone unid 11; tessera black 1; glass clear greenish BS 1; bronze hook 1; glass clear pinkish BS 1; bone unid 20; lamp type 27 (similar to Corinth IV.2) disk with man over a calf, his hand over its muzzle 1 (saved to lot); iron nail square shank incomplete 7; lamp type 31 (similar to Corinth IV. 2) base 1; glass clear light green Diam. 0.07 rim 1 BS 1; bone sus maxilla 1; glass opaque reddish purple BS 1 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2/2 6th c. | |
| Grid: | 281.93-278.97E, 1016.84-1020.6N | |
| XMin: | 278.97 | |
| XMax: | 281.93 | |
| YMin: | 1016.84 | |
| YMax: | 1020.6 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.7-85.79m. | |
| Is Below: | 5011 | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Heidi Broome-Raines (2007-04-30 to 2007-05-18) Images (5) Coins (6) |
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