| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6609 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | ash dump | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6609 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/06/08 | |
| Stratum: | 5%: few tiles, medium rectangular stones, ashy fill | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark greyish grey. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is well sorted. It is silt. | |
| Notes: | As with context 6598, we excavated this distinct, ashy fill in the northeastern corner where walls 5519 and 5483 meet, just to the south of the foundations 6575, in hope of finding the remainder of the foundation thrench that we revealed in the excavation of soft fill 6578. We did not locate a clearn line after he removal of the ashy fill, however, meaning that we needed to understand the length of 5519 as having at least two phases of foundation: one to the west, going as far as the long block that has a threshold cutting (and stopping halfway from the end); and an earlier phase, founded deeper, that reflects only a small stub of 5519 and most of foundations 6575. While we interpreted the ashy level that we removed as dumped fill, it must be acknowledged that we may have removed a feature (e.g., a hearth) without understanding its relationship to wall section 5519, since we had been interpreting the fills in that part of the room as they would have related to a putative doorway, rather than thinking about two distinct phases of wall. 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. amphora1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 4 frag(s) 0.12 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | |
| Context Artifacts: | iron blade 1; glass bs 1 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | late 10th/11th, npd | |
| Grid: | 270.47-269.03E, 1026.71-1027.25N | |
| XMin: | 269.03 | |
| XMax: | 270.47 | |
| YMin: | 1026.71 | |
| YMax: | 1027.25 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.17-84.27m. |