Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 5130
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 5130
Area:   Nezi Field
Title:   Fill below wall 21 (NB228)
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1100
Context:   5130
Page:   0
Date:   2007/06/07
Stratum:   B5130 contains ca. 20% of small subrounded and angular pebbles
Description:   Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. Bottom slope of the context is slight. The soil color is dark brownish black. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   B5130 is basically an exploratory basket in the area where wall 21 (NB228) was located and to the W of that all the way until the wall that connects wall 19 and wall 23 (NB228). The purpose of B5130 is to reveal any cuts or features that were previously not visible because of wall 21 (NB228). A terracotta mold was recovered and sent to the museum. Because some fragments of it were missing, the pottery of this basket was also sent to the museum.
Context Pottery:   Cooking ware. cooking pot as Hesp 2005 1-281 rim. ; Cooking ware. flat lid, lid. 1 rim. ; Fineware. pre-Roman 39; Coarseware. Nied 771 handle. ; Fineware. early Roman 6; Cooking ware. jar as Hesp 1994 no. 491 rim.
Pottery Summary:   53 frag(s) 0.13 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    194 frag(s) 1.46 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    77 frag(s) 0.46 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   iron nail head, square shaft , preserve L. 0.026; iron slugs 2; bronze lump 1; iron nail 1, square shaft, preserved L. 0.0.024; bronze nail 1, square shaft, preserved L. 0.051; glass opaque bs 1; lamp type XXVII handle 1, base 1 with makers mark, shoulder 1 (saved to lot); ovis scapula 1; fragment of glass waste (saved to lot); glass slugs 2; iron nail 1, square shaft, preserved L. 0.036; iron nail 1, round shaft, preserved L. 0.021; glass clear blueish bs 5; iron frgt 1; lamp shoulder 1, red glaze (?); lead head of tack 1; glass clear bs 2; glass clear torus base 1; lamp type XXVIII shoulder 1; iron nail 1, square shaft, preserved L. 0.032; bone sus second phalange 1; bone unid 24
Period:   Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:   late 5th to early 6th c AD
Grid:   278.15-277.22E, 1016.1-1020.4N
XMin:   277.22
XMax:   278.15
YMin:   1016.1
YMax:   1020.4
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   85.68-85.78m.
Is Below:   5126
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Ioannis Sapountzis (2007-05-18 to 2007-06-07)
Image: bw 2007 015 31
Image: digital 2007 0489
Object: MF 2007 16
Coins (18)