| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6765 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Wall | |
| Title: | North-South Wall | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1104 | |
| Context: | 6765 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2010/04/17 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2010-046 | |
| Stratum: | 70% small and medium stones, cobbles, boulders, ceramic, bone | |
| Description: | The soil color is mixed. It is sandy silt. Structure materials: conglomerate, tile, marl, fieldstone. Material size: max. L. 0.54 x H. 0.16; avg. L. 0.30 x H. 0.12. Material finish: roughly hewn, squared. Material construction: random coursed. Material bonding: none. Features: none. | |
| Notes: | Wall 6765 is a NS wall, uncovered during the excavation of 6759 (and cut 6760), as well as excavation of 6770 (6770 = 6759). Wall 6765 runs roughly parallel to NS wall 5431. Wall 6765 abuts or possibly bonds with EW wall 6775. Wall 6765 abuts EW wall 6764; it is possible that wall 6765 abuts and then continues up and over wall 6764, but this is unclear. Together with EW walls 6775 and 6764, and NS wall 5431, wall 6765 forms part of a rectangular pit (= 6759 = 6770), possibly used for the deposit of pottery -- primarily cookware -- and bone. Later notes: 19/5/10 JB KSS It has now become clear that 6765 continues approximately 1.2 meters to the north, but curves in a flattened s-shape because the stones were robbed out unevenly. The stones are bonded at the curve of the S. We include a new master top plan behind the original for thie context that shows the extension of this wall. Even later notes: 15/6/10 JB We are now excavating the wall, as it has been pedesstalled in the north and south. We have hypothesized that this wall has its strange shape because it was robbed out on the northeast and southwest. The soil is a light yellowish brown in some places and a dark reddish brown in others. Excavation suggests that 6985 abuts 6765. The soil excavated in 7242 certainly continues under 6765, and so dates earlier. PK has revealed a line of stones running NS on a line similar to 6765. It seems that this may have been an earlier wall that was robbed out and cut by the pit under 6765. Then 6765 was built over the pit and around the remains of the lower wall. The north bottom elevation was 83.71, while the one to the south was 83.57. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. ww polychrome (1050-1120), plate. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. basin. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), mug. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww painted (700-1120), plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pedestal, dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww stamped, plate. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 19 frag(s) 0.39 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 219 frag(s) 7.47 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 38 frag(s) 0.31 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bronze lump 1 (saved to lot); small Ionic capital fragment 1 (saved to lot); marble column frgt 1; iron nail square shaft 1 lump 1 (saved to lot); iron strap 1, spike 1 (saved to lot); andicite hand mill 1 (saved to lot); Bone- coracoid of Aves, md (Bird - Medium) - 1 example(s).; shell spondylus gaederopus 1 (saved to lot); Bone- complete radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 10 example(s).; Bone- fibula of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- head femur of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Aves, md (Bird - Medium) - 7 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 16 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metacarpal of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 3 example(s).; Bone- proximal radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 14 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Aves, md (Bird - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft femur of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 3 example(s).; Bone- shaft tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 3 example(s).; Bone- shaft, distal humerus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft, distal radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft, distal tibia of B. taurus (Cattle) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft, distal tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- tooth of B. taurus (Cattle) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tooth of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 5 example(s).; Bone- tooth of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 6 example(s). | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 11th | |
| Grid: | 275.77-274.65E, 1041.16-1044.7N | |
| XMin: | 274.65 | |
| XMax: | 275.77 | |
| YMin: | 1041.16 | |
| YMax: | 1044.7 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 83.57-84.39m. | |
| References: | Image: digital 2010 1134 Image: digital 2010 1143 Coin: 2010 152 |