Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 6263 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Basket | | Name: | | Nezi Field, context 6263 | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context Type: | | Bothros | | Title: | | fill for bothros | | Category: | | Deposit | | Notebook: | | 1103 | | Context: | | 6263 | | Page: | | 0 | | Date: | | 2009/05/06 | | Lot: | | Lot 2009-032 | | Stratum: | | 80-90% inclusions; pottery, tiles, rocks, pebbles; 76 tiles, 16.99 kg. | | Description: | | The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is well sorted. It is silty sand. | | Notes: | | During excavation of surface 6258, a concentration of tile and pottery was noted under 6258's west end. After our pickman, Panos, carefully exposed the concentration, it was realized that it was in fact a bothros. The chronological significance of this deposit should be stressed, as the surface which sealed it, 6258, was preliminarily dated in the field by a coin find and cookware to the 10th century, hereby forming a terminus ante quem for this bothros fill 6263. The date of the bothros should confirm the floor surface with an earlier date.
When we were finished removing the bothros fill, we revealed several things about the way that the walls 5483 (N-S) and 5631 (E-W) related to each other and to this context: 1) The tiles visible at the bottom of the bothros cut 6264 continue westward beneath the cut to touch wall 5483. This means that we do not seem to have a continuation of the foundation trench for THAT wall, which was already partially uncovered in past excavations. 2) The tiles and ceramics that rest at the bottom of the pit definitely continue downward and may represent the top of a foundation trench for the west section of wall 5631 and 3) That foundation trench (putative) for 5631 appears to cut a swath of road that also appeared at the bottom of this context. We are now done excavating in that area, since we seem to have exposed the beginnings of foundations for wall 5631 and have no continuation of the 5483 foundation trench going north to south. | | Context Pottery: | | Cooking ware. premedieval13 bodysherds. ; Fineware. premedieval3 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. stamnos. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. premedieval57 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. white ware, kettle. 1 rim. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 6 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 1 rim. 1 handle. 13 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot. 11 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | | Pottery Summary: | | 3 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | | | | 97 frag(s) 5.13 kg. (28% saved) coarseware. | | | | 27 frag(s) 0.34 kg. (56% saved) cooking ware. | | Context Artifacts: | | glass clear green base 1; marble revetment purple and white 1 (saved to lot); tile 4; glass 1; Bone- mandible of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tooth of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s). | | Period: | | Byzantine | | Chronology: | | late 10th/11th NPD | | Grid: | | 272.69-271.4E, 1026.35-1027.11N | | XMin: | | 271.4 | | XMax: | | 272.69 | | YMin: | | 1026.35 | | YMax: | | 1027.11 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | Masl: | | 84.17-84.42m. | | References: | | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by spongberg hammond lima (2009-05-20 to 2009-05-21)
Image: digital 2009 1431
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