| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5464 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Tile and mud brick pit fill northwest of drain | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5464 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/13 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2008-030 | |
| Stratum: | Total 45%: 20% tile, 5% pottery, 10% pebbles fine to cobbles, rounded to angular, spherical to platy, 10% ash, <5% boulders (2 of them). | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is uneven. The soil color is mixed. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | We are now going to remove the tile-mudbrick fill of the area to the west of the drain in room E. This area was excavated last session and five vessels were found buried against the western wall (5347 and 5345). We want to dig this pit further in order to date and better understand this area, as well as completing the pit begun last session. The slope of the fill steps down in the north along the foundation trench, slopes slightly to the south from there but then levels out. The soil of this fill is coarse yellowish brown with large patches of reddish brown in the matrix, these patches are identified as heavily weathered mudbrick. There are also clumps of yellow clay along the north side of the pit fill. Bits of clay were also uncovered around the SW edge where there is an ashy patch. We are collecting all the tile from this fill, two buckets worth. Sometimes the clay appears stuck to the tile - is this from deposition or is this related to how the tiles were used prior to deposition? The soil is lighter than other dark, yellowish browns we have seen at Corinth, but it is still dark in modifier. We have also come down on a few patches of very dark brown soil in the matrix of our context - these are along the south side of the pit. Actually these are pockets of carbon mixed in the soil. We took a shovel full to sample in a water bucket using a finer screen mesh and found the carbon was just charcoal without seeds, fine bones, etc. We will remove the rest of this context and then decide what to do with the harder red context found below it. The soil matrix is mainly dark yellowish brown, but with a large area of reddish weathered mudbrick and parts of ashy greyish brown. Tile: The tile pulled out has clearly been redeposited in this pit. We have a variety of forms - curved Hellenistic, pan tiles, cover tiles, flat tiles - all in various colored terracotta - some yellowish, some red-orange, most buff, some light gray. As for sizes, the pieces vary from very large to small. One curved Hellenistic tile measures 0.27m x 0.24m x 0.02m. One pan tile edge piece measures 0.09m x 0.06m x 0.05m. Another curved Hellenistic tile measures 0.08m x 0.07m x 0.01m. A flat tile with a sloped edge (see context sheet for sketch) measured 0.09m x 0.09m x 0.02m. And an orange cover tile with a pointed ridge and a lip on the underside measures 0.12m x 0.10m x 0.03m. Total count: 135 Total weight: 62.81kg 92 are of a small size (smallest: 0.05m x 0.04m x 0.02m; largest: 0.12m x 0.06m x 0.04m; ave. size taken from a sampling: 0.09m x 0.10m x 0.03m) 22 are of a medium size (smallest: 0.13m x 0.08m x 0.03m; largest: 0.15m x 0.12m x 0.04m; ave. size taken from a sampling: 0.13m x 0.12m x 0.04m) 18 are of a large size (smallest: 0.14m x 0.21m x 0.03m; largest: 0.24m x 0.15m x 0.03m; ave. size taken from a sampling: 0.21m x 0.15m x 0.04m) 3 are of a very large size (0.20m x 0.25m x 0.04m; 0.27m x 0.24m x 0.02m; 0.26m x 0.24m x 0.04m) | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. Pre-Roman13 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Nied 775 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. frying pan. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Arrentine, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. beaker. 4 rims. 1 handle. 47 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Pre-Roman1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 19 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 50 frag(s) 1.09 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 93 frag(s) 0.68 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | wall plaster yellow 2 black and yellow 1 red 3; Iron lumps 2; Iron nail square shank 1; Glass clear colorless wth incised line decoration bs 1; Terracotta mould fragment 1 (saved to lot); Lamp type 27 nozzle 1; Glass opaque brownish wasters 12; Marble revetment schisty gray , purple and white 1, white 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Grid: | 278.35-277.12E, 1018.65-1020.47N | |
| XMin: | 277.12 | |
| XMax: | 278.35 | |
| YMin: | 1018.65 | |
| YMax: | 1020.47 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.18-85.47m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Anne C. Feltovich, Catherine W. Person and Emily M. Rush (2008-05-05 to 2008-06-14) Image: digital 2008 0090 Image: digital 2008 0091 Coin: 2008 109 |
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