Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 6477
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 6477
Area:   Nezi Field
Context Type:   Surface
Title:   Floor, packed earth
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1103
Context:   6477
Page:   0
Date:   2009/05/27
Stratum:   Ceramics, stones (coarse pebbles, angular, spherical)
Description:   The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is well sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:   Context 6477 is a packed earth floor in room west of courtyard. Floor surface seems to be consistent for whole room. Floor is truncated by south pit, cut 6473, and bothros 9 (NB 235, p.19). Two samples were taken from same locations of samples taken from context 6467 which laid above 6477 Soil is light sandy silt reddish brown in color. On far east side of floor 6467, a patch of reddish/white was revealed.
Context Pottery:   Coarseware. Byzantine, amphora. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. premedieval5 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:   5 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    62 frag(s) 0.78 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    10 frag(s) 0.08 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   iron ring 1; glass clear white bs 2, rim 1 (cup/beaker/goblet), clear blue concave base with pontil mark 1
Period:   Byzantine
Chronology:   late 11th-early 12th
Grid:   262.52-261.36E, 1030.81-1034.79N
XMin:   261.36
XMax:   262.52
YMin:   1030.81
YMax:   1034.79
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   84.4-84.48m.
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Karl Goetze, Dan Leon (2009-05-25 to 2009-06-12)
Image: digital 2009 2151