| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5047 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Pit fill, lowermost | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 5047 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/05/10 | |
| Stratum: | Dark reddish brown soft sandy silt with 40% inclusions. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the NE. Bottom slope of the context is slight. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We are continuing to excavate the fill of Bothros 7. This is the W section: the E section was excavated in B 5046. We divided the area into W and E as in the upper lens of fill (B 5028 and B 5029) because this area appeared to have been less disturbed by the 1961 excavations. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. Medieval, stamnos. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 rim. ; Coarseware. burnished micaceous, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. glazed, mug. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. plate1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. cloche lid1 rim. ; Fineware. ww cut (700-1120), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre-Medieval6 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. middle byzantine, amphora. 1 rim. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. pitcher1 handle. 2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. basin5 rims. ; Fineware. ww cut (700-1120), mug. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 11 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 74 frag(s) 2.03 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 29 frag(s) 0.27 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | wall plaster painted black 1; olive pit incomplete 3; iron nail square shank head 3 shank 9; glass clear greenish rim Diam. 0.06m rim 1 BS 1 purplish BS 1 bluish loop handle (similar to handle on MF 12113) Max. P. L. 0.017m 1; lamp candlestick glazed nonslip 1; glass waste? opaque blackish 1; bronze nail square shank incomplete 1; bone pin (similar to MF 2380) with simple incisions Max. P. L. 0.089m shank 1 (saved to lot); iron lump 4 flattened shank with a rounded lump on two sides 1; shell lima 1; bone sus immature maxilla 1 phalanges 8 unid vertebrae 3 small carnivore maxilla 2 unid 36 | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 1090 +/- 10 | |
| Grid: | 269.25-268.29E, 1017-1018.4N | |
| XMin: | 268.29 | |
| XMax: | 269.25 | |
| YMin: | 1017 | |
| YMax: | 1018.4 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.09-85.16m. | |
| Is Above: | 5036 | |
| Is Below: | 5029 | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Heidi Broome-Raines (2007-04-30 to 2007-05-18) Report: Nezi Field 2007 by J. Matthew Harrington and Theodora Kopestonsky (2007-05-21 to 2007-06-08) Images (5) |
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