| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6475 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Wall | |
| Title: | levelling course of threshold | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6475 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/05/27 | |
| Stratum: | 70%: large amounts of tile, shell, bone, ceramics | |
| Description: | The soil color is light pinkish brown. It is sandy silt. Structure materials: tile, laid flat and side to side; marble revetment or paving material. Material size: tiles: 0.17 m L. x 0.13 m W. x 0.13 m H.. Material finish: marble highly polished, most likely reused. Material construction: regular coursed. Material bonding: mudbrick. Features: supoports threshold 10085. | |
| Notes: | This levelling course was constructedin order to bring threshold block 10085 to an appropriate height so that it could be used together with wall 10078. The threshold block itself has a small cutting to accommodate a door jamb; ostensibly, the large orthostate block directly to the north also was cut for this purpose, but appears to be a component of a wall that was founded earlier (unfortunately, this idea is formed only on th ebasis of the foundations as they stand, and not on the basis of their foundation trenches, which are probably of a very narrow construction and filled entirely with foundation stones). A crumbled section of the levelling course (tumble would have occurred westward) may be due to a lack of support for this section following the excavations of several large pits in this room in the 1960s; the wall section appears to have been undermined, and to have tumbled. Excavation of this context revealed the top of the cobble foundations supporting the levelling course. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270), stewpot. 1 rim. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. premedieval7 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 8 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 16 frag(s) 0.23 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 22 frag(s) 0.29 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bronze finger ring 1, as Corinth XII, no. 1910 (11th century); organic sample 1 (natural substances drawer) (saved to lot); Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of B. taurus (Cattle) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- vertebrae of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s). | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | 12th/early 13th | |
| Grid: | 281.51-281.05E, 1025.54-1026.65N | |
| XMin: | 281.05 | |
| XMax: | 281.51 | |
| YMin: | 1025.54 | |
| YMax: | 1026.65 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.62-85.74m. | |
| References: | Object: MF 2009 36 Object: MF 2009 38 |
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