| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 82 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Possible robbing trench fill, top. | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 82 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/05/08 | |
| Stratum: | Very soft sandy silt with poorly sorted inclusions, 15%: primarily rounded and subangular cobbles and tile frags. Also <5% coarse pebbles, bone/shell and sherds. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is moderate down to the N. Bottom slope of the context is moderate down to the NThe soil color is very dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | EXCAVATION NOTES: [recorded in field by Alicia Carter] The removal of B65 revealed the W cut of this deposit. This deposit is v. different from the soil it cuts because it is very soft and darker in color. Before excavating this context we spent time defining the cuts/boundaries better - particularly on the E side to make sure that this context does not lie UNDER the clay and stone feature - it does not. We think this context may be the fill of a robbing trench because the cuts are linear and parallel, running N-S. We think this may be the robbing trench for the W wall of the clay and stone feature because the E cut of this context cuts the W edge of the clay and stone feature precisely where we hypothecize its western wall to have been. The removal of this context reveals that the clay and stone block feature is founded on a cobble packing. [Later note: this cobble packing is the floor of the feature, interpreted as an oven, excavated with B90.] This context was followed to the N all the way to the cut of the pit (cut of Pit = B71). The pit cut this context. We close this basket when we reveal a new context inside these cuts that is different because it has inclusions of patches of black ash and orange clay. It is still very soft. This new context will be dug as a separate basket. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225)2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 4 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)3 rims. 4 handles. ; Coarseware. matte painted, stamnos. 2 handles. 22 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300)16 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. matte painted, basin. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260), bowl. 2 rims. ; Coarseware. undecorated, amphora. 2 handles. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)2 rims. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 2 rims. 2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. undecorated, bowl. 2 rims. ; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), jug. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. matte painted, bowl. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. Turkish II, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 56 frag(s) 0.35 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 474 frag(s) 3.84 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 191 frag(s) 1.45 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | copper wire 1; iron tack incomplete round head 1; glass clear blue bs 1; iron strip 1; bone unid 30; iron spike incomplete 1; lamp Byz suspension bowl 1; iron nail incomplete square shank 4; iron nail round head square shank bent 4; stone tessera 1 | |
| Period: | Turkish II (1715-1831 AD) | |
| Chronology: | NPD | |
| Grid: | 267.37-266.44E, 1001-1006.5N | |
| XMin: | 266.44 | |
| XMax: | 267.37 | |
| YMin: | 1001 | |
| YMax: | 1006.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.23-87.43m. | |
| Is Above: | 117 | |
| Is Below: | 65 | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-05-18) Image: digital 2007 0286 Image: digital 2007 0287 Coin: 2007 111 |
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