| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6349 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Robbing trench | |
| Title: | Robbing trench | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6349 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/05/12 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2009-015 | |
| Stratum: | Ceramics (including much tile); stones (small pebbles to cobbles; angular-rounded; spherical-tabular); plant material, bone: 20% inclusions | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | Context 6349 represents either a foundation trench or robbing trench located in space between courtyard of Byzantine house and room immediately to the west. Its associated cut is 6350. Revealed by removal of several contexts (6207 & 6246). Context 6349 possibly associated with threshold structure 6347 which is between pier blocks 6319 and 6337. However, trench 6349 has larger dimensions than these structures which could suggest it is for an earlier structure. Soil is dark yellowish brown clayey silt with ca. 20% inclusions (ceramics, stones, bone, plant material). In southern part of context 6349 (adjacent to structure 6347) its removal revealed a surface of compact earth. At northern boundary of context 6349 are two threshold stones (structure 6320). They are for an E-W doorway between courtyard and room immediately to the west and are fairly well aligned with threshold 6347. 6320 at slightly lower elevation either because ground level slopes down to the north or this (6220) is an earlier threshold with the one contemporary with 6347 robbed out. As 6349 removed seems likely it represents a robbing trench since it appears almost the entire wall was robbed out except for the two thresholds. Cut for this robbing trench is clearer on the west side than the east. Small part of floor revealed by removal of context 6349 in the south. As removal continued in northern part, Thanasis noted a difference in soil color (darker in the south). Interupted this context to excavate 6354 in an attempt to clearly identify cut in eastern side of 6349. After continuing with excavation of several other contexts, robbing trench became no more clearly defined and it may in fact be that we have not yet reached the fill of the robbing trench in the northern part. The only part in the north which may survive could be the western cut. The rest may have been disturbed by cut 6362 and then masked by fills in cut (6354, 6366). Fills inside this northern section, thus, may all represent later disturbances. North section = north of wall 6228. Removal of context 6366 revealed part of robbed out wall showing 6349 a higher fill above 6366. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. measles, slipped slip painted sgraffito (1140-1160), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270), stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. unslipped/plain-glazed, pitcher. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. mug. ; Fineware. sgraffito I, slipped painted (1160-1180), plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 8 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (88% saved) fineware. | |
| 17 frag(s) 0.24 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 108 frag(s) 2.44 kg. (1% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron nail 1; strip 1; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- scapula of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s). | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 1150 +/-10 | |
| Grid: | 265.79-264.59E, 1028.97-1033.43N | |
| XMin: | 264.59 | |
| XMax: | 265.79 | |
| YMin: | 1028.97 | |
| YMax: | 1033.43 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.35-84.5m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by William Bruce, Scott Gallimore (2009-04-27 to 2009-05-15) Coin: 2009 86 |
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