| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 65 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | general fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 65 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/05/02 | |
| Stratum: | 10% poorly sorted inclusions of tile fragments, small to medium pebbles (rounded, subrounded and angular), small bone fragments, and pottery sherds in a light yellowish brown sandy silt. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the NW. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the NWThe soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | After closing B62 Cleomenes began excavating B65 starting at the W boundary of the orange clay and stone block feature (prematurely partially excavated ealier with B26). While excavating B65 he will further define and refine the boundary of this clay+stone feature. Excavation of B65 continued on 3/5/07. Only 1 nail and a small amount of bone fragments and pottery sherds have been recovered so far. This is in sharp contrast to B48 and B68, both in the SE corner of the excavation area, since each of these produced large numbers of bone fragments and pottery sherds and several nails. We have halted the excavation of B65 temporarily at an abitrary line ca. 1 m south of the EW wall and at an arbitrary E line so that we can remove B64 (EW wall super structure). We are doing this because stratagraphically, the wall is later than B65 - the construction trench for the wall cuts B65. This way we can avoid contamination by leaving a full meter of B65 untouched up to the S face of the wall until it is fully removed. We resumed excavating B65 on 04/05/07 with Andreas as pickman. The first complete pass with the pick across context B65 was completed on 7/05/07. In the extreme NE we came down on a different context after this first pass was excavated. We swept the surface and determined that not all of the context had been excavated yet. So another pass with the pick was started from the S and the NE at the boundary of where the new context was revealed. The thickness of B65 is not uniform over its whole area. This new different context under B65's extreme NE, we believe as of right now, is the same as that which is below B57 and north of B63. Thanasis excavated the lower 1/4 (broken into many pieces but still intact) of a large ceramic vessel still partially in situ at these coordinates: 265.90 E, 1007.55 N, and 87.28 El. (the dirt below the vessel) and 265.88 E, 1007.52 N, and 87.30 El. (the bottom of the vessel). After taking measurements the vessel's fragments were removed and placed in their own box to be washed together and put on the drying tables together to aid any potential mending that might be done. All the vessel's fragments were fully embeded within the context B65 and no other. As we make the second pass of the pick across B65 we are revealing many new smaller contexts. An area of reddish soil with a very defined eastern border has come to light. Its western boundary is the western excavation escarpment from 1001N to 1002N, it extends ca. 40 cm to the E and to the N to a so far undetermined extent. We have uncovered what appears, at this point in time, to be part of a wall and its associated robbing trench running roughly N/S from approximately 266 E by 1003.10 N until ca. 266.10 by 1005.50. Bordering on the area of reddish soil's eastern boundary is an area of softer, darker soil. This new area extends to the western edge of the orange clay and stone block feature. To the west of B71 (cut of pit) we are in the process of uncovering a dense area of cobbles and tiles, perhaps a destruction horizon. After the second pass with the pick was dug across B65 we closed B65 on 8/05/07 due to the many new contexts appearing below - all of which have their borders fully revealed, that is, there is no more of B65 on top of any of them. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. ottoman slip painted1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. glazed cooking1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. china blue glazed1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. marble ware, bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. imitation china blue glazed1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 236 frag(s) 3.45 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 855 frag(s) 19.14 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 306 frag(s) 4.76 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass opaque blue BS 1; Roman lamp type 31 shoulder 1; glass clear blue L.0.037 Th. 0.003 Diam. 0.03 (cf. MF-7560b) Base 1; glass clear pale green bs 1; bone ovis maxilla 1 mandible 1; glass clear greenish folded foot L. 0.046 Th. 0.007 Diam. 0.12 Base 1 (saved to lot); iron nail complete bent L 0.066 1; shell patella 3 lima 2; glass clear greenish L. 0.013 Th. 0.003 Diam. 0.05 Base 1; bronze wire, 2 hollow half spheres pierced (saved to lot); glass clear yellowish/gold folded foot L. 0.009 Th. 0.003 1; glass clear bluish rim L. 0.022 1; bone sus madible 1; iron nail complete bent L. 0.072 1; lamp Byzantine candlestick stem 1 bowl 2; marble revetment white 1; bronze strip L. 0.017 1; glass clear brownish BS 1; iron knife blade with incomplete haft and rivet for attachment to handle surface very corroded L. 0.13 1 (saved to lot); chibook mouthpiece 1; glass clear light purplish folded foot with domed floor with flaw on underside of floor from manufacturing process L. 0.05 Th. 0.005 Diam. 0.06 Base 1 (saved to lot); bone unid ca. 100; bronze strip L. 0.021 1; glass clear green BS 1; iron nail incomplete 4; glass clear colorless BS 6 | |
| Period: | Turkish II (1715-1831 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 1780-1800 | |
| Grid: | 271.6-263E, 1001-1011.1N | |
| XMin: | 263 | |
| XMax: | 271.6 | |
| YMin: | 1001 | |
| YMax: | 1011.1 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 87.15-87.59m. | |
| Is Above: | 82 | |
| Is Below: | 23 | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-05-18) Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lina Kokkinou and Angela Ziskowski (2007-05-21 to 2007-06-09) Image: digital 2007 0159 Image: digital 2007 0295 Coin: 2007 107 Coin: 2007 108 |
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