| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6441 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Leveling fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6441 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/05/25 | |
| Stratum: | Ceramics; stone (med pebbles-cobbles; sub-rounded to angular; spherical); bone; 40% inclusions | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Context 6441 is a small leveling fill located at the western end of wall 5783 and northern end of staircase 6296. 6441 overlying a built floor of tile and pebbles. Soil is dark yellowish brown clayey silt with approximately 40% inclusions (stone, ceramic, bone). Fill likely related either to floor directly above (6440) or to one of surfaces at higher elevation. Removal of 6441 revealed more of foundation trench 6301 (cut 6302) which appears now to be unfinished. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 handle. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 12 frag(s) 0.12 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | |
| 3 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- mandible w/teeth of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- tooth of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae, cervical of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s). | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | late 10th-11th NPD | |
| Grid: | 269.37-268.99E, 1030.39-1030.85N | |
| XMin: | 268.99 | |
| XMax: | 269.37 | |
| YMin: | 1030.39 | |
| YMax: | 1030.85 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.48-84.54m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Karl Goetze, Dan Leon (2009-05-25 to 2009-06-12) Image: digital 2009 1491 |