| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5056 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Subfloor fill, N of N wall of Rm F | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 5056 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/05/11 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2007-036 | |
| Stratum: | Soft dark reddish brown soil with 40% inclusions: broken tiles, stones, roots. | |
| 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 dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We are taking the reddish layer beside the clayey floor - or the flat clayey deposit in the E end of the room. We are trying to establish whether this layer cuts the clay or the clay this layer. This red layer appears to overlay a nice surface, perhaps a floor. We are finding coins (minimi and a follis) and a lot of sherds. This layer appears to continue W through the room N of Room F, W. We are trying to find its extent. The high number of coins from this context is very notable. Among the 5th century coins was one well-preserved Trajanic coin. [Pottery reading: Most of the pottery is 3rd/4th, but micaceous water jar toe is late, and so is the Palestinian white painted jar. There's not a strong case for making it 3rd/4th or 5th/6th either. We're going with mid 6th c., but pottery of this period in Corinth is not well understood.] | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. pre-Roman32 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. trefm, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. red slip unid3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. AfRS form 87 or form 61?1 rim. ; Cooking ware. sombrero lid1 complete profile. ; Cooking ware. as Hesperia 94 no. 45, bowl. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. matte painted, basin. 1 rim. ; Cooking ware. casserole; Fineware. AfRS form 50A1 complete profile. ; Cooking ware. small basin similar to Hesperia 94 no. 481 rim. ; Cooking ware. frying pan1 rim. ; Cooking ware. roundm, pitcher. 1 rim. ; Fineware. Corinthian echinus, dish. 1 rim. ; Cooking ware. bowls5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. arretine1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Corinthian relief, bowl. ; Coarseware. nied772 handles. ; Coarseware. palestinian, amphora. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. AfRS unid1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. MWJ late toe1 handle. ; Cooking ware. as Hesperia 94 no. 44, bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. chandarli unknown form1 rim. ; Cooking ware. as C-82-4, stewpot. 1 rim. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 65 frag(s) 0.41 kg. (25% saved) fineware. | |
| 234 frag(s) 5.37 kg. (4% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 143 frag(s) 1.26 kg. (14% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless BS 6 dark orange BS 2 greenish BS 5 rim 2 yellowish rim 1 whitish BS 2 opaque white BS 1 blackish BS 2 strap handle 1 (saved to lot); lead flat oblong pieceMax. P. L. 0.032 (saved to lot); marble stopper gray Diam. 0.042 1 (saved to lot); bone fish vertebra large 1 (saved to lot); amphora depinto fragmentary 1 (saved to lot); bronze lump 3 (saved to lot); iron nail square shank shank 6 head 5 (saved to lot); tessera black 2 whitish 2 gray 1 (saved to lot); lamp type 16 nozzle 1 type 27 handle 2 shoulder 1 (saved to lot); marble revetment white 2 carystian 1 gray 1 (saved to lot); lamp Greek nozzle 1 (saved to lot); schist paving 1 (saved to lot); mosaic floor plastered over and painted red 1 (saved to lot); lamp double nozzle handle 1 (saved to lot); terracotta figurine base 1 (saved to lot); cement block formed 1 (saved to lot); iron lump 1 (saved to lot); obsidian worked 2 (saved to lot); bone sus canine 1 unid phalange 1 unid 20 (saved to lot); tile 12 (saved to lot); shell murex 2 cardia 1 (saved to lot); plaster wall painted Roman red 4 yellow 2 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 1/2 6th c. | |
| Grid: | 271.11-267.52E, 1020.7-1022.21N | |
| XMin: | 267.52 | |
| XMax: | 271.11 | |
| YMin: | 1020.7 | |
| YMax: | 1022.21 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.39-85.56m. | |
| Is Above: | 5067 | |
| Is Below: | 5049 | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Heidi Broome-Raines (2007-04-30 to 2007-05-18) Coins (39) |
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