| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6575 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Wall | |
| Title: | foundations for wall | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6575 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/06/04 | |
| Description: | Structure materials: limestone, tiles. Material size: limestone boulders: avg. 0.30 x 0.20 x 0.20. Material finish: rough faced. Material construction: random uncoursed (only 2 courses visible). Material bonding: none perceptible. Features: perhaps accommodated threshold block. | |
| Notes: | The foundations of the wall 5519 were revealed in plan by excavation of 6628, a levelling fill directly to th esouth of the wall gap. Our explanation for the stratigraphic relationships that we recorded was that the early phases of wall 5519 featured a threshold that mediated the surface levels of the room to the north of 5519 and the surface levels to the south of the wall. Then, around the time that surface 6572 was exposed, the threshold and its underlying blocks were popped out, evidence by cut 6549 and fill 6583, and given some other use. The remaining gap still formed a doorway, but levelling fill 6628 would have been needed to bring the floor level in the southern room up to the height that the dirt north of the room has reached. The stones of the foundation run th elength of 5519 and were probably all filled in as foundations at the same time; there remains the possibility that the foundations stretched beyond this room as well, and that they should be equated with wall 5631 to the east. The construction of that wall as it survives is not far from how the foundations 6575 appear; if this scenario were to be correct, though, and both of the east-west sections were built simultaneously, we must imagine that the upper courses were robbed out and replaced by smaller blocks above 5631's foundations- e.g., 6267. POST-EXCAVATION NOTE, 15-06-09, S.L.: Contexts 6663 and 6649, at least one of which underlies this context, were found to contain two joining coarse incised ware body fragments of the Frankish period, dating to the mid-13th century. These sherds will stratigraphically change the dates of every context that lies above them by as much as two centuries, of which this context is one. Until it is decided whether there is some other reason that this discrepancy might have occurred (e.g., these contexts need to be situated in a different place on the Harris Matrix), the dates will remain as they have been assigned on the basis of pottery/stratigraphy prior to discovering this discrepancy. | |
| Grid: | 271.33-266.01E, 1027.1-1028N | |
| XMin: | 266.01 | |
| XMax: | 271.33 | |
| YMin: | 1027.1 | |
| YMax: | 1028 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.32m. |