| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5764 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Surface | |
| Title: | Courtyard surface | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5764 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/06/03 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2008-066 | |
| Stratum: | 70%: tiles, cobbles, pebbles (sm-lg), pottery, bone, small boulders | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the W. The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Deposit 5764 is a surface full of large inclusions covering the courtyard south of the drain. Its removal is showing the surface underneath to slope to the south toward the stairs. We are removing this surface in order to reveal more of the surface revealed with the excavation of 57__. This lower surface may correspond to the surface visible in the scarp of the 1960s pit at the east and possibly be the surface associated with the construction of the drain. The removal of 5764 revealed a foundation trench for the staircase. Also, although we had thought the removal of 5764 would reveal the floor visible in the scarp of the 1960s pit, it would seem now that 5764 was that associated surface. Due to this confusion we are now going to remove the martyr just west of the 1960s pit and see if the floor levels become clearer. Excavation of 5764 also shows that the surface continues under wall 5508. More careful examination of the section created by the 1960s excavation in the SE corner of the courtyard has revealed 2 floors. It is now posited that the surface 5764 is the later of these two floors and the surface revealed by the removal of 5764 is the earlier surface. Because the removal of 5764 revealed the cut of the foundation trench for the north wall of the staircase, which is cut into the earlier floor, it seems that the surface 5764 is the floor associated with the first phase of use of the staircase. The deposit 5764 surface does not extend northwards to meet the drain, where the cut for the drain is still obscured, but the change between 5764 and his abutting layer is diffuse and both these layers may be actually the same. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. pedestaled dish. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), cup. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. basin. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval42 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. jar. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), dish. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww painted (700-1120), dish. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. basin. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), unid. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 53 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (19% saved) fineware. | |
| 113 frag(s) 5.15 kg. (5% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 390 frag(s) 0.9 kg. (1% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | relief marble 6; iron slag 2 nail with circular shaft head 1 oval shaft shaft 2 pin head 1; stone tessarae white 2 black 1 black with plaster bonding material 1; glass clear goblet with convex bottom base of stem 1, cup with thickened rim rim 1, twisted spiral bracelet dark blue similar to mf-7584 diam 0.065, bracelet with rectangular section as mf-2805 diam. 0.055; wall plaster red 3 white 1; bone pin with head in shape of bird incised circle for eye grooves and diagonal incisions on circular shaft diam 0.004 (saved to lot); glass clear bluish bs 6 greenish bs 2 yellowish bs 1 green bs 2 colorless bs 1; chert nodule 1 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 11th century | |
| Grid: | 271.21-268.79E, 1030.67-1032.44N | |
| XMin: | 268.79 | |
| XMax: | 271.21 | |
| YMin: | 1030.67 | |
| YMax: | 1032.44 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.63-84.64m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Jody Cundy and Megan Thompsen (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) Coin: 2008 221 Coin: 2008 222 Coin: 2008 223 |
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