| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6628 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6628 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/06/03 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2009-068 | |
| Stratum: | 50%: large angular tiles, small subrounded cobbles, ceramics, small angular stones, few medium-sized boulders | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Of the many strata revealed by 6540, two have been excavated so far: 1) the slumped fill of context 6555, which lay to the north of storage pit cut 6380 and 2) the soft fill 6561 that lay in a depression to the east of wall 5284 in surface 6572. The soft levelling fill 6628 that we are excavating now has signs of having been used as a floor patch, since it appears to be filling a depression between the flat, hard surface to the west (6572, the same that appears to dip and form the depression above which 6561 lay) and walls 5483 and the area just south of the gap in wall 5519 to the east. The identification of this context as levelling fill makes sense in light of its position directly in front of the robbed out wall, which perhaps functioned as a door offering access to the room at some point. If this were the case, it would be easy to imagine the surface wearing out faster in that spot than elsewhere. Alternatively, and expanding our perspective to accommodate principles of open area, we can imagine this filling event to have taken place after the removal of part of wall 5519 as a means of making the space traversible between different surface levels. When the wall/putative threshold on the northern edge of the room existed, it would have mediated between the surface levels on its northern and southern-facing sections. Therefore, we see the stratum revealed by context 6456 (by green team in session II) going up to the edge of where the robbed-out section existed; the fill that we are excavating, which lay directly to the south of where the wall's continuation would have been, and which continues BETWEEN the split sections of 5519, is laid against that exposed line to the north. Therefore, the fill is later, represents a levelling event that occurred after the threshold (putative) was removed, and was used to make th esurface levels more even between the two rooms. This means that the hard, level surface that is currently being revealed in the excavation of 6628 represents the latest floor BEFORE the mediating wall/threshold was removed and the areas merged their surface levels. When the wall foundations that this fill covered were revealed, one of the blocks was discovered to have a square cutting suggesting that it had functioned as a threshold block at some point; the block is bonded beneath a larger, overlying block built securely into the wall, and most likely represents a well-earlier phase of use. Interestingly, at the very end of the context, a post hole was observed near the door as well. Do their functions pair? 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: | Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww incised (700-1120), chafing dish. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), plate. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval30 bodysherds. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. prehistoric3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Roman8 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. basin. 2 rims. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 45 frag(s) 0.16 kg. (11% saved) fineware. | |
| 224 frag(s) 3.7 kg. (1% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 73 frag(s) 0 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass bracelet clear dark blue, as MF 14047; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; iron lump 2; Bone- carpal/tarsal of B. taurus (Cattle) - 1 example(s).; iron shaft from file or knife 1; iron slag with cement 1; iron nail round shank 2; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- femur of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- mandible w/teeth of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of B. taurus (Cattle) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- rib of B. taurus (Cattle) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tarsal, astragalus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tarsal, astragalus of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tooth of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- ulna of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 4 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae, cervical of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s). | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 12th npd | |
| Grid: | 270.65-268.3E, 1025.4-1028.04N | |
| XMin: | 268.3 | |
| XMax: | 270.65 | |
| YMin: | 1025.4 | |
| YMax: | 1028.04 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.32-84.45m. | |
| References: | Object: MF 2009 16 |
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