| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 837 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Layer with tile and carbon W of 746 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 837 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/05/16 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2012-046 | |
| Stratum: | Tile (20%), cobbles and pebbles (20%), pottery, bone, iron, glass, mosaic fragment. | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | This is the removal of a darker soil W of wall 746 with tile and flecks of carbon, on its W side, it is laid on sloping orangey matrix and proceeded E. The S border of this context is truncated by an arbitrary baulk. It continues E until a small cut W of wall 746 (left from the excavation of this wall during the last session). Started second bucket of pottery. After the first pass across this area, it became clear that this context continues further down on the W side. On the E, however, the soil is harder and contains fewer rocks. We are continuing to excavate the W side, proceeding E to clarify the border between the current context and the harder soil to the E. Found mosaic fragment. Context left open at end of day. 17 May 2012: G. Sanders has identified sparkly cooking ware in the pottery from this context, so we have switched to 100% sieving. Started 2nd bucket of pottery. Lots of horn (7 pieces so far). Along the S border, the context continues all the way to wall 746 in the E. Found coin #79 (272.02 E, 1009.99 N, 86.39 H) above/at upper edge of sloping orangey soil to W. Started third bucket of pottery. Started another bucket of pottery from sieve (2nd for sieve). Now up to 4th bucket in trench (6 buckets total). Context not finished; left open (again) at end of day. 51 wheelbarrows = 204 buckets sieved today. (While workmen were busy, we took 120 elevations.) 18 May 2012: We have finished this context with a total of 8 more wheelbarrows sieved (total 59 100% sieved) = 236 buckets. 6 buckets pottery, 1 bucket bone. Removal of this context exposed the sloping orangey softer soil at bottom throughout. This soil slopes down from W to E in the SW, from S to N in the SE corner, is comparatively level in the NE, and slopes down from SW to SE in the middle to N part of the W side. 22 May 2012: Sculpted marble fragment: This is a fragment of drapery carved in relatively coarse-grained white marble, preserving portions of two complete folds and edges for two more on either side of the fragment. The greatest preserved length is 0.089 along the line of the larger fold. All folds run in nearly parallel lines and are roughly circular in section, with a diameter of 0.051 between finished edges for the larger fold and a diameter of 0.036 for the smaller one. A concave depression 0.017 wide and preserving much of the original surface lies 0.016 behind the plane of the preserved front surface of the smaller fold, separating the two folds. The largest fold begins to divide at one end into two; a portion of the drill mark for this divide is preserved along the break and the sculptor has shown the fabric pulled into a subtly angled plane around it. The closest comparanda in the museum for this treatment of the folds are (in descending order of similarity) the bottom of the tunic worn beneath the cuirass of the statue of an armored man from the Julian basilica from the 2/4 of the 2nd c. CE (Corinth IX 143), the similar tunic on the statue of an armored man from the forum in the 1st c. CE under the courtyard roof by the entrance, and the statue of a standing nude male with a cloak over his left shoulder on the east side of the courtyard. Additionally, the size and shape of the folds requires a lifesize scale for the original sculpture and suggests they should be oriented vertically rather than horizontally or at an angle. Based on the above comparanda, the fragment is likely from a lifesize standing male figure wearing either cloak or heavy tunic. (On all other sculptural pieces I have observed, the folds are either much flatter or narrower in section and/or do not include the abrupt division in the largest fold.) 25 June 2012: Now inventoried as S-2012-4. - RM | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), beaker. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. tapering12 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), unidentified. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. handmade beaker, beaker. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .2 with combing; Fineware. premedieval38 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. AfRS, 104-6. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. preRoman69 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. micaeous stewpot, stewpot. 27 handles. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed?, chafing dish?. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. late Roman amphora II9 rims. (saved to lot) .late form; Cooking ware. concave thickened rim stewpot (800-950)42 rims. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. lids6 rims. (saved to lot) .1 with spots of glaze, 1 with gold mica | |
| Pottery Summary: | 126 frag(s) 0.95 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 2098 frag(s) 44.15 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 813 frag(s) 10.11 kg. (1% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass, clear, green tinge, rim, 4 (saved to lot); glass, clear, dark green, bs, 1 (saved to lot); iron, slag?, curved on one side, flattened on other with indentation in center, one end straight, top and bottom indented and straight on half adjacent to straight end, 1 (saved to lot); wall plaster fragment, 10 (saved to lot); glass, clear, blue, tessera?, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, fragment, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, blue tinge, rim, two pieces of one rim, restored diam. 8 mm, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail, rectangular shaft, 3 fragments 1 nail, wall plaster attached, 1 (saved to lot); marble, revetment fragment, white, 4 (saved to lot); glass, clear, greenish blue tinge, bs, 3 (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, bs, 10 (saved to lot); glass kiln fragment, 1 (saved to lot); marble, revetment fragment, purple streaks, 1 (saved to lot); stone, tessera, white, 9x8x8 mm, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, trapezoidal strip, slightly bent, pierced for attachment on center line with 2 mm hole, two pieces, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, blue, bs, 1 (saved to lot); iron, flattened strip, 9 mm wide, one end thicker and slightly curved, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail, head, 1 (saved to lot); bone, beak, small bird, 1 (saved to lot); marble, fragments, red, 3 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, green tinge, goblet, thin incised lines radiating from stem, 2 fragments of same base, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, yellow tinge, bs, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, blue tinge, bs, 7 (saved to lot); glass, clear, blue tinge, tubular ring foot, as MF 71-218, base, 1 (saved to lot); mosaic, fragment, multi-colored tiny pebbles, 0.055 by 0.025 of top surface preserved, see contexts 865, 879, 890, 951, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, blue tinge, Corinth XII 673, base, 1 (saved to lot); marble, revetment fragment, blue streaks, 1 (saved to lot); lead, cupellation bowl, base, inventoried as MF-2012-21, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, dark green, internal added gold? Lense, bs, 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail, square shaft, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail, shaft, rectangular shaft, 2 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, greenish tinge, base, restored diam. 6mm, 1 (saved to lot); marble, rough-grained, white, sculpted fragment, two deep parallel rounded folds of drapery with edge of third and drill mark roughly perpendicular to surface for start of another (see notes), 0.093 x 0.086 x 0.068, 1 (saved to lot); marble, fragments, white, 2 (saved to lot); iron, slag, (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, tubular ring foot, base, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, bs, 6 (saved to lot); marble, opus sectile fragment, lapis lacedaemonius (saved to lot); iron, key?, 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | 8th to early 9th | |
| Grid: | 275.34-271.01E, 1009.5-1013.28N | |
| XMin: | 271.01 | |
| XMax: | 275.34 | |
| YMin: | 1009.5 | |
| YMax: | 1013.28 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.14-86.65m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Jonida Martini, and Rachel McCleery (2012-04-30 to 2012-05-19) Object: MF 2012 21 Object: S 2012 4 Coin: 2012 79 |
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