| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6689 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1104 | |
| Context: | 6689 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2010/04/09 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2010-002 | |
| Stratum: | 15% inclusions: roof tile, pottery, bone, and some small charcoal lenses | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is uneven. The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is coarse sand. | |
| Notes: | Context 6689 is a loose fill, directly under the hardened ashy layer, 6687. We are excavating 6689 because it is located between wall 5678 and pit 5629 - a narrow and undercut baulk. Before we can continue to excavate wall 5678, we need to excavate the baulk (so it does not collapse). Within the fill we discovered a small ash pit (6690 + cut 6691); the fill continued underneath the ash pit. The fill is heterogeneous, with inclusions of pottery, bone, and tile. There is a mostly intact pot, upside down, in the North-East corner of the context, indicated on the top plan by a "P." We removed the pot together with the soil inside it for conservation (one photo was taken of the pot in situ, to the South-East). Hopefully this pot will date the fill. We closed the context because we came down on a hard, white, limestone surface, comprising over 80% of the bottom of the context, stretching in a line from the North-West corner towards the center and covering the entire Eastern half. A small area of softer soil with lots of inclusions of pottery and tile exists in the South-West corner - this soil is identical to the context 6689. The harder lime surface might be part of the subfloor for the marble tile floor (= 5710); test elevations were nearly identical. Once context 6689 was removed, the earth baulk was lower and more stable, so we were able to finish excavating wall 5678. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. premedieval3 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. mid byz, amphora. 1 handle. 8 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 1 rim. 2 handles. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 4 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (25% saved) fineware. | |
| 84 frag(s) 1.68 kg. (6% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 34 frag(s) 0.26 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear green goblet stem 1 similar to Corinth XII no. 720 yellow bs 1; shell murex 1; Bone- cranial of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 9 example(s).; Bone- distal femur of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 9 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Mammalia, sm (Mammal - Small) - 1 example(s).; Bone- radioulna of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, sm (Mammal - Small) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tooth of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 7 example(s). | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 11th c. | |
| Grid: | 265.63-264.29E, 1043.44-1043.92N | |
| XMin: | 264.29 | |
| XMax: | 265.63 | |
| YMin: | 1043.44 | |
| YMax: | 1043.92 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.02-84.31m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2010 by Paga, Jessica (2010-04-07 to 2010-04-23) Image: digital 2010 1010 Image: digital 2010 1011 Object: C 2010 1 |
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