| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6589 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Surface | |
| Title: | surface | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6589 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/06/04 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2009-065 | |
| Stratum: | 20%: large angular tiles, large angular ceramics, bone, small rounded pebbles | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We are excavating this surface next as the one cut by post hole 6585 and overlaid by 6571. 6572 revealed a large portion of this surface directly, but the relationship is not expressed in the HM, since several intervening features that cover 6589 were also revealed by 6572 and express their stratigraphic relationship to that surface . The expectation is that if the foundation trench for wall 5519 and foundations 6575 continues eastward, it will be uncovered as part of this context. Working from east to west, Panos has exposed a very flat, light reddish brown surface that is definitely the one cut by the foundation trench 6616 for wall 5519/foundations 6575. This proved not to be the case; the stratum changed to a softer, darker fill on the eastern half of the room. When Panos examined the boundary between the hard surface revealed to the west and the aforementioned soft fill, he felt that the soft fill was probably still covering the newly-exposed surface (i.e., the one that we have described as being cut by the foundation trench for wall 5519/6575). Therefore, we will move to excavate the soft fill in hopes of revealing the cut surface. We have noticed for several contexts now (e.g., 6628, 6589, 6587, 6582) that the area to the south of foundations 6575 seems especially chopped up; this would not be difficult to imagine if this was functioning as a threshold where foot traffic was frequent. 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. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. ww cut (700-1120), cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval27 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. fruit dish. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww polychrome (1050-1120), plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 2 rims. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pithos. 1 rim. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 38 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (26% saved) fineware. | |
| 336 frag(s) 5.38 kg. (4% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 61 frag(s) 0.46 kg. (8% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless thinwalled bs 1 (saved to lot); marble revetment 1 (saved to lot); iron disc 1 (saved to lot); clear bluish tubular fragment (trail from production?) L. 0.021 D. 0.002 as Corinth MF-7525 (saved to lot); iron nail with round head1 (saved to lot); glass blue 4 (saved to lot); tack complete 1 (saved to lot); mastoid cup (saved to lot); tessera 3 (saved to lot); iron nail 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 12th century npd | |
| Grid: | 270.75-266.9E, 1025.4-1025.9N | |
| XMin: | 266.9 | |
| XMax: | 270.75 | |
| YMin: | 1025.4 | |
| YMax: | 1025.9 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.36-84.41m. | |
| References: | Coin: 2009 185 |