| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5680 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Fill of foundation trench for Wall 6 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5680 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/28 | |
| Stratum: | 30%: small angular boulders, tile, pottery | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | This context was excavated out of sequence. It cuts the topmost layer of dumped fill in the area (# ), which now appears to have continued across the entire boundary of the triangular pit cut ( # ). Consequently, the sequence that should have been excavated was 1) fill of foundation trench # 5680 2) dumped fill 5667 and 3) triangular pit cut. We did not realize that the dumped fill was a single, homogenous layer until we examined the E-facing section and noticed that it was stepped. The edge of the cut for the foundation trench is vertical and clear in the soil profile, and continues downward in a square and uniform fashion. Because of the presence of the huge bothros to the S of Wall 6, we only have a preserved section of the foundation trench running for about 0.40 m. If not for the presence of the bothrow, it would be questionable to identify the foundation trench as having cut through a layer of dumped fill rather than through, say, the plastered floor surface that lies approximately 0.20 m below it (which you would more likely expect to be exposed when a wall was cut). However, the wall does appear to truncate the large pit that semi-encircles it to the S. It is more regular for pits to be round as opposed to semicircular (although they come in many forms), and it is worth asking why one would deliberately cut a pit against a wall. Since the pit appears to have cut the plastered floor surface, it seems like a good solution to view Wall 6 as having been constructed later, cutting through the preexisting bothros in the building process; consequently, the cut occurs at a higher level than the plastered floor. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 handle. ; Coarseware. triangular rim amphora (1100-1260), amphora. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 12 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 148 frag(s) 1.5 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 24 frag(s) 0.28 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | lima 1; glass, clear, white bs 1; marble revetment 2; glass, clear, green, as Jalame p. 69, no. 257, handle 1; Bone- complete tarsal of Equus sp (Horse, Ass Family) - 1 example(s).; Bone- fragment vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- manubrium (sternum) tooth, canine of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft femur of Ruminant, sm (Ruminant, sm) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s). | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 12th c., NPD | |
| Grid: | 261.88-261.19E, 1034.24-1034.5N | |
| XMin: | 261.19 | |
| XMax: | 261.88 | |
| YMin: | 1034.24 | |
| YMax: | 1034.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.22-84.87m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) |