| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5224 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Cleaning | |
| Title: | Archaeological cleaning in Room E, W of drain | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5224 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/04/14 | |
| Stratum: | 10% medium to large pebbles, some cobbles, mostly sub-rounded spherical and tabular; 1-2% carbon pieces, 1-2% small white clay clumps, some tile fragments, mud-brick clumps, glass slag | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is mixed. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We have opened a cleaning context in preparation for the first excavations of the season in Room E on the W side of the drain. The soil in this context is mixed. In the center of the room it is dark brownish red, but it is dark brownish black toward the N. Further N, along the wall, is a strip of more brownish red with large tile pieces. We are finding burnt sherds, glass slag, and occasional carbon chunks ranging from 1 mm to 3 or more cm. across throughout the context. The area of brownish red along the north wall may correspond to the fill of the pit on the E side of the drain (dug in 2007 as cut 5012 filled by context 5005) since both contain many large tile fragments. This area may also represent a continuation of the foundation trench along the north wall on the E side of the drain. In the center of the room, the soil is light grayish yellow. This soil has large clumps of white clay and it contains a good deal of red that may have once been mudbrick. In the W of the center, ther is a broken and patchy floor surface that is not being touched in this cleaning basket. The cemelt floor might relate to a cement floor in the room to the W, although they are separated by a wall and a much later pit. After finding four coins in the south of the context, we decided to seive the remaining 10% of soil. To the S of center is an area of light yellowish red soil that contains notable lime inclusions, probably from plaster or another building material. This soil may overlie the floor, but the floor clearly overlies the other soils that it touches in the context. Along the S wall is an area of brownish red soil with occasional small yellow clay inclusions. This is the area from which the soil was sieved , and this area yielded all but one of the coins found in this context. See the drawing fro context 5238 to see a representation of the different soils revealed by this cleaning. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. AfRS, unidentified. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. pre-Roman2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. nied 77. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 3 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 54 frag(s) 0.77 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 37 frag(s) 0.23 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | marble revetment white 2; glass slag red-brown 21; ochre nodule 1; bone (2 env.); lead crucible? 1; iron nail 1 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 400-600 | |
| Grid: | 278.42-277.2E, 1016.22-1020.51N | |
| XMin: | 277.2 | |
| XMax: | 278.42 | |
| YMin: | 1016.22 | |
| YMax: | 1020.51 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.63-85.78m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Nathan T. Arrington and Andrew (Drew) W. Sweet (2008-04-07 to 2008-04-23) Image: digital 2008 0025 Coins (6) |