| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5588 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Leveling fill over earth floor | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5588 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/22 | |
| Stratum: | 12% total inclusions: 10% fine to coarse pebbles, rounded to angular, spherical and tabular, 2% tile, minimal pottery | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the E. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | This thin layer of soil was beneath the redeposited tile layer, 5568, and on top of what appears to be a floor of compact dirt, partialy exposed in the northeast corner of the room. There are still a few bits of tile embedded in this layer. We are removing this as a separate context from the tile layer (5568) because the tile of 5568 popped off easily, whereas the only remaining tile is firmly embedded in this layer (5588). Our goal in excavating this layer is to expose the floor. It is difficult to tell the boundary between this layer (5588) and the floor because both have dried out. At the bottom of this context was revealed an ashy layer cutting the floor and cut by the bothroi excavated in the 1960s. Also revealed was the possible tops of two very narrow (< 0.10m) foundation trenchs for walls 5519 and 5483, the foundation trenches cut the floor. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. ww plain (700-1120)1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre-medieval3 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. amphora. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), cup. 1 handle. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 5 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 36 frag(s) 0.23 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 14 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bronze thin sheet diam. 0.029 previously coin 2008-162 base 1; Glass clear greenish (as Jalame 87) Diam 0.07 rim 1; Iron loop with broken off iron attachment and bronze attachment Diam. 0.03 1; Glass clear greenish bs 2, bluish bs 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | second quarter of the 13th | |
| Grid: | 270.61-267.02E, 1023.52-1027.28N | |
| XMin: | 267.02 | |
| XMax: | 270.61 | |
| YMin: | 1023.52 | |
| YMax: | 1027.28 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.59-84.99m. | |
| 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 0135 Image: digital 2008 0136 Coin: 2008 162 |
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