| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5604 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Wall | |
| Title: | Foundations for E-W running wall | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5604 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/27 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2008-001 | |
| Stratum: | 60% inclusions: small angular cobbles, medium subangular and subrounded cobbles, small and medium pottery fragments, small rounded pebbles, small boulders, pithos sherds, sandy silt | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark reddish brown. It is sandy silt. Structure materials: limestone, tile. Material size: 0.20 m L x 0.15 m W, x 0.10 m H. Material finish: rough hewn. Material construction: dumped rubble. Material bonding: none. | |
| Notes: | like the context that was excavated immediately before it (context 5644), context 5604 has a regular cut into the flat-lying surface with tiles revealed by excavation of 5589, 5586, 5598, and 5620. However, G.S. has suggested that the cut was actually at a much higher elevation. The context has not yet been given a number. It is also significant for our understanding of the well, because the surface appears to be the start of the well cut as well. This is a new observation made by A.C. today, who noticed that the tiles overlying the well's mouth were cemented only with dirt. This would not have been a construction that would have survived weathering. Consequently it appears that we have the cut preserved below the former location of (5620 on its S and W edges) and that it may be about 5 cm pedestalled on its N and E edges (former location of 5581). This seems to mean that we should consider the E-W wall foundations 5604 in concert with the well. The same goes for the new pit cut. Because the foundations are so shallow and because they were already partly exposed wen we excavated them, it is likely that we never had the opportunity to locate the floor that was used along with them. Certainly, we did not see indications of one while excavating to the N of wall 5604. Addendum: the cobbles appear much deeper to the W. The excavation of this context revealed the relationship between cobble foundations 5604 and Wall 4-- although it was already pretty obvious, the foundations abut @all 4. What remains unclear is how the foundations relate to the new E-W running wall exposed by 5623. Certainly, the new E-W wall appears more similar in construction to Wall 4 than to Wall 5603. Moreover, it continues deeper than wall foundations 5604. I am wondering, though, if it is possible that the rubble and tile that we uncovered as part of 5627 is actually a continuation of the foundations-- do they meet Wall 4, corner northward, and then corner once more when they reach Wall 58? The pickman has observed that the cut is regular up to the point wher eit meets the S edge of the new E-W wall-- but then it is difficult to say. Addendum: the new E-W wall definitely bonds with Wall 4, meaning that it must predate the foundations. Consequently, the phasing must be something like this: 1) Wall 5562 running N-S (Walls 4, 5473 abut) 2) wall 4 (abuts wall 5562): (bonds with new E-W wall) 3) New E-W wall (bonds with Wall 40 4) Foundations 5604 or mystery cobbles revealed by 5627 We cannot with certainty understand the foundations of 5604,because G.S. Has posited that they may have cut a much higher surface once-- one that no longer existed when we first evaluated this area. If that is the case then the wall that we excavated ast 5603 would have to be a later reuse of the foundations- or a remnat of their construction. G.S. has suggested that comparanda for the wall type that he envisions would have put the top of the foundations at almost 86.00-86.50 MASL. If that is the case, then the wall coult be considerably later. Spot dates on the pottery of the foundations puts them roughly into the 12th century. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. 19 bodysherds. ; Fineware. medalions, slipped style III (1170-1200), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270), stewpot. 1 rim. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. spiral style glazed painted, slipped (1120-1140), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww painted (700-1120), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100), stewpot. 1 rim. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. triangular rim amphora (1100-1260), amphora. 3 rims. 1 handle. 11 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 27 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (30% saved) fineware. | |
| 319 frag(s) 4 kg. (5% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 87 frag(s) 0.75 kg. (6% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | stone bead, green 1; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- femur of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Oryctolagus cuniculus (Rabbit - Domestic) - 1 example(s).; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).; Bone- sacrum of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s). | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 4th quarter of the 12th | |
| Grid: | 264.26-261.19E, 1035.55-1036.63N | |
| XMin: | 261.19 | |
| XMax: | 264.26 | |
| YMin: | 1035.55 | |
| YMax: | 1036.63 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.96m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) |