Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5331

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5331
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Foundation trench
Title:		Fill Foundation Trench 5215
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		5331
Page:		0
Date:		2008/05/05
Lot:		Lot 2008-045
Stratum:		Fine to large pebbles, cobbles. Tabular angular. Tile, cement. Tiles: 100, 15.60 kg. 20%
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		Excavating 5331. We are finding some terracotta and tile inclusions. Soil color is mixed. It is brown in color, but as we proceede from east to west, the hue goes from grayish to reddish and becomes softer. We have found some bronze. There are some charcoal bits included in the soil. The terracotta finds include a lamp. Also found are bone and glass. On the north-west side, there is a strong change in how the trench was dug (clear transition). We hit on the west side a concentration of cobbles/tiles. We do not proceed further west. These cobbles/tiles may represent later fill or action. The transition in soil color mentioned above may represent a significant change; the foundation trench may have begun further west than anticipated, with the redder soil (and see further notes). We continue to explore the grayer soil and its edges, but we do not remove it. The Turkish house cuts into/off our foundation trench on its west side. Tiles: 100 frg., 15.00 kg. At the east side of our context, the grayer soil may be linked to later activity on the wall, associated with the large orthostate at the east end of 5215. The scarp on the north side of our context perhaps is not the natural end of our trench, and we may have to scrape it back farther. Upon scraping with the trowel, we find the line for the perhaps correct cut. Otherwise, it ould be that the trench cuts into a pit, whch would explain the irregular scarp. The scarp referred to above is the northern edge of a pit designated Cut 5175, which was filled by 5171 and 5183. It was noticed by Guy Sanders that several pieces of pottery were extending out from the cut wall, indicating that the possibility of an underdigginng of the pit fill. It is decided scrape back this cut wall as described above in order to define the cut better (Deposit 5351). As the soil of the deposit was removed, it revealed different deposits; at the East, a harder yellowish surface was revealed that seems to continue northward into unexcavated fill. It is possibly a floor. This yellowish surface abuts a softer grey deposit to the South, the extent of which cannot be determined until the area south of it, left from the 1960's excavation, has been cleaned to determine if it it a deposit or perhaps backfill. A block was revealed ( 264.80 E, 1020.35N ) in alignment (N-S) with another block revealed by the excavation of context (# 5330) (coord. 264.22E, 1023.16 ). They may be part of an earlier wall, though the relationship between these blocks and 5215 Is not clear.. Abutting this new block to the East, a deposit of compact ligh grey soil(?) material was revealed. To the East of his harder chunky deposit, more reddish brown soft soil continues from the deposit of 5331. This reddish brown soil within the cut of the foundation trench will be continued in 5352.. The crusty greyish deposit will be dug as 5350. It is expected that both 5350 and 5352 are contemporary fill in the foundation trench of 5215.
Context Pottery:		Cooking ware. stewpot3 rims. 18 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Nied771 rim. 7 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ESA, plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Thinned walled, tankard. 1 rim. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. AfRS, Form 50. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. bowl1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. preRoman15 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. roundmouth pitcher1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Chandarli, unid. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Red slipped, unid. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. thin walled beaker1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Corinthian, echinoid dish.
Pottery Summary:		28 frag(s) 0.28 kg. (4% saved) fineware.
		170 frag(s) 3.18 kg. (1% saved) coarseware.
		94 frag(s) 0.88 kg. (22% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		lamp type 27 late handle 1 (saved to lot); iron nail square shaft 1 square head 1 round shaft 1; marble bowl bs 2, rim 1 (saved to lot); marble base molded 1; glass clear colorless bs 2 clear colorless w/ added black dot, techinque as C 12-615 clear yellowish bowl outflaring flat rim 1 Diam. 0.14 similar to MF 7543 [C 12-691, p. 107 fig. 12] clear blueish bowl w/ outflaring rim 1 nonj 5351; plaster blue 1 white 1; marble revetment white 1 white and pink 1 green and white 1; terracotta beard from comic mask with pink pigment as mf-1987-27B 1 (saved to lot); stone (marble?) bowl burned rim 1 bs 1 (saved to lot); charcoal 12; bronze nail, oval shaft 1 H 0.28
Period:		Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD)
Chronology:		Early 4th
Grid:		265.28-262.41E, 1020.26-1020.26N
XMin:		262.41
XMax:		265.28
YMin:		1020.26
YMax:		1020.26
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.67-85m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Jody Cundy and Megan Thompsen (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Matthew J. Baumann and Nathanael J. Andrade (2008-04-07 to 2008-04-23) Object: L 2008 1 Object: MF 2008 24