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Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 6249 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Basket | | Name: | | Nezi Field, context 6249 | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Title: | | Foundation for pier | | Category: | | Cut | | Notebook: | | 1103 | | Context: | | 6249 | | Page: | | 0 | | Date: | | 2009/05/05 | | Lot: | | Lot 2009-043 | | Stratum: | | Inclusions of small angular and sub-angular platey stones, little pottery, rough-faced boulders .15x.2x.25, and cobbles | | Description: | | The soil color is light brownish grey. It is sandy silt. The context shape in plan is rectrangular. The top break of the cut is not perceptible. The sides of the cut are vertical. The break at the base of the cut is not perceptible. The base of the cut is tapered blunt point. Structure materials: limestone. Material size: .15x .2x. 25. Material finish: rough faced. Material construction: dumped rubble. Material bonding: dirt. Features: 3 lines of dumped rubble. | | Notes: | | This context was exposed in session 1, part of the upper foundations of this same pier were dug of a separate context, #6117, in that case, the excavators stopped because they felt that the matrix of soil and dirt was much looser than it was when it reached this context- a series of dumped rubble fills running in relatively even coursing going down in a small area. The working hypothesis is that we are dealing with lower foundations of the pier which cuts a much higher surface. For the sake of relationships relative to what is currently exposed, this pier will be later than the "paving" [putative] to the north, and the surface 6164 to the west. As stated before, these relationships are not directly associated, and will nor be reflected in the Harris Matrix.
As the cobbles continue to be excavated, the shape of the cut emerged as square, with straight sides bounded by the two walls, the "paving" (putative) and the exposed floor surface to the w; however the very bottom revealed that the foundation for the pier was actually cutting an earlier foundation trench (puative), perhaps for wall 5553. Only further investigation an clarify whether this hypothesis is correct. However, one other thing that this context revealed was that wall 5553, on its lower courses, appears to have construction techniques that share characteristics of 5483, also N-S, to the west. | | Context Pottery: | | Coarseware. pre-medieval59 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. pitcher (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww stamped, plate. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot. 10 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. closed vessels27 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-medieval7 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. stamnos (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora1 handle. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. inwardly sloping rim stewpot (950-150)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. pre-medieval1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. pedestal plate1 rim. (saved to lot) . | | Pottery Summary: | | 8 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (13% saved) fineware. | | | | 96 frag(s) 1.4 kg. (39% saved) coarseware. | | | | 24 frag(s) 0.28 kg. (67% saved) cooking ware. | | Context Artifacts: | | Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; glass, green, goblet, stem 1 similar to 7556; glass, blue, plate rim 1; marble sculpture draped knee 1 (saved to lot); Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 example(s).; Bone- rib of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tarsal, astragalus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tarsal, calcaneus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s). | | Period: | | Byzantine | | Chronology: | | late 10th/11th NPD | | Grid: | | 273-272.31E, 1023.3-1024.5N | | XMin: | | 272.31 | | XMax: | | 273 | | YMin: | | 1023.3 | | YMax: | | 1024.5 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | Masl: | | 84.08-84.62m. | | References: | | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by spongberg hammond lima (2009-05-20 to 2009-05-21)
Image: digital 2009 0497
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