| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6657 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6657 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/06/11 | |
| Stratum: | 10%: tiles, cobbles, stones | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark brownish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Following the excavation of context 6649, we noticed a soft fill near the wall 5483, which we interpreted as cutting a neighboring harder stratum. However, the boundary is diffuse; the boundary of the cut seems clearer to the north than it is to th esouth, where the line between hard and soft strata seems to dissapate and the divisions of soil appear mixed up. Therefore, our strategy will be to work from the visible boundary line to the less visible boundary line, working under the educated guess that this could be foundation trench fill. ON the eastern side of the wall 5483, the foundation trench occurred at almost exactly this level. However, it did apper more deeply founded there than it does in the section of bothros 6645, so that aspect of our identification is in need of further exploration and investigation. Ultimately, we decided that the fill was not part of a foundation trench. The lines weren't clear enough to designate a clear cut to the south, and the fill that we exposed appeared to have the same stone chips and ash that we had id'd to the north. The next step is to excavate the harder stratum that this fill laid against, in order to reveal the top of the cobble/chip-rich later, and then to take it all together. 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. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. premedieval13 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 14 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 38 frag(s) 0.18 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 25 frag(s) 0.76 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear green 1 bs; bronze lump 1; glass clear blue 1 bs | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | 12th/13th century npd | |
| Grid: | 270.79-270.42E, 1023.57-1025.42N | |
| XMin: | 270.42 | |
| XMax: | 270.79 | |
| YMin: | 1023.57 | |
| YMax: | 1025.42 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 83.89-84.17m. | |
| References: | Coin: 2009 204 |
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