| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 834 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Removal of wall 731 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 834 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/05/16 | |
| Stratum: | Cobbles and tile ~80%, pottery. | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is well sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | This is the removal of stub wall 731 which was identified last session by previous excavators. The removal of 832 (mixed hard soil) laid against 731 exposed a second course of rounded cobbles and tile, which was not previously visible. We are removing both courses. Soil is light yellowish brown. Cobbles and tile ~80%. 21 May 2012: As best we can ascertain, wall 731 is a Middle to Late Byzantine foundation. It does not appear to be related to any other visible architecture in its vicinity, nor do we have evidence of robbing trenches that could have removed surrounding walls. Wall 731 is one of 4 stubby N-S structures that have been excavated in Nezi field over the last few seasons, around coordinates 1011 N to 1012 N (W of wall 540) and 1011.50 N to 1113.20 N (E of wall 540). These are, from W to E, pier 573, 'unknown structure' 829, wall 694, and wall 731. All are similar in construction (fairly homogenous, rounded cobbles of approximately 10-15 cm) without cement mortar and appear to be similar in date (10th to 11th c. npd, with the exception of a single? mid-12th c. body sherd recovered from wall 694, which may well have been contamination from the mid-12th c. pit cut into wall 694). The upper preserved course of pier 573 was built of three worked, faced stones rather than rounded cobbles; the other stub walls may once have served as foundations for similar upper courses that have not survived. The N extent of walls 573, 829, and 694 is clear. Stub wall 731, if part of the same building activity, probably ended in the N roughly where it was preserved upon excavation, rather than continuing N or intersecting with any other E-W wall. Without further excavation, we cannot be certain whether or not the S ends of these 'piers' are preserved as originally constructed, thanks to later robbing activity. We speculate that these 'walls' or 'piers' were constructed, possibly as buttresses, against the N face of the two large E-W walls in this area (wall 747 east of wall 540, and wall 807 west of wall 540). Excavation around pier 573 showed that its foundations continued down over a meter from ground level, however, while the other structures seem to have only 1-3 courses preserved. - RM/JM 24 May 2012: Definitely overlaid by 714 from session 1. May also be overlaid by 712. - RM 4 June 2012: Perhaps contemporary with wall 420? Dating of wall 420 currently disputed. - RM | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 bodysherd. flaring tapering rim; Coarseware. mid Byz, pitcher. burnished; Fineware. premedieval2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. mid Byz, amphora. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 2 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 56 frag(s) 0.9 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 13 frag(s) 0.13 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | 10th-11th npd | |
| Grid: | 273.75-273E, 1011.78-1013.33N | |
| XMin: | 273 | |
| XMax: | 273.75 | |
| YMin: | 1011.78 | |
| YMax: | 1013.33 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.53-86.77m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Jonida Martini, and Rachel McCleery (2012-04-30 to 2012-05-19) |
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