Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 5132
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 5132
Area:   Nezi Field
Title:   General fill over floor surface
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1100
Context:   5132
Page:   0
Date:   2007/06/07
Stratum:   15% inclusions of pebbles and small cobbles
Description:   Top slope of the context is level. Bottom slope of the context is level down to the The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is stongly cemented. The soil is well sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   The reddish fill over the floor surface came off readily and clearly revealing that the floor's surface is preserved on the Western c. 2m at Rm F except where cut by a foundation trench at the W wall at Room F by the circular feature in the SW corner and by semicircular cutting immediately adjoining the West edge at Bothros 7 (NB228). The floor stops c. 0.50 m from the N wall at Rm F (W38 NB228) but a foundation trench or other course is not yet apparent. The surface at the floor is variable in elevation and tainted by postholes and carbon although pieces of charcoal are not large or frequent.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. esb F702 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ww incised chafing dish1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. cooking pot2 rims. ; Coarseware. table amphora1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. crater with pedestal foot; Fineware. esb, dish.
Pottery Summary:   12 frag(s) 0.07 kg. (8% saved) fineware.
    48 frag(s) 0.93 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    38 frag(s) 0.48 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   bone unid 8; bronze lump 1; bone ovis incisor 1; lamp Type 27 painted shoulder 1; glass 2, clear light blue bs 3
Period:   Roman
Chronology:   5th with ww contamination from Bothros 7
Grid:   268.6-266.9E, 1017.5-1019.3N
XMin:   266.9
XMax:   268.6
YMin:   1017.5
YMax:   1019.3
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   85.43-85.58m.
Is Below:   5129
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2007 by J. Matthew Harrington and Theodora Kopestonsky (2007-05-21 to 2007-06-08)
Images (5)
Object: A 2007 1