| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 888 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Black Soil N of Wall 366 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 888 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/06/07 | |
| Stratum: | Inclusions: clay, stones, tiles, pottery, marble, lead, carbon, glass | |
| Description: | The soil color is light yellowish black. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey sand. | |
| Notes: | While we were excavating 887, Thanasis suggested to stop digging this context, and we decided to move south, to the black filling of a cut, diggen in red layers. 888 was partially dug during session I, but they stopped excavating it, bacause not all its boundaries were clear at that phase of the excavation. The pottery pulled out from 888 consists of very large pieces and we found in it a great number of coins (22 coins). Coins were mainly in the middle of the context, quite close one to each other. It is worth noticing the finding of a cameo (from sieve), who has incised on it Artemis riding a deer. 888 came down on a hard-packed reddish soil, which is clearly different from the black soil of context 887, N 888. The N edge of this context is Wall 366. At the bottom of 888 a concentration of pebbles indicates the presence of a pit, whose boundary is clearly visible. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .Sanders 1999 19; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), pedestal cup. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .Sanders 1999 17; Plainware. wavy line, amphora. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Plainware. LR, amphora. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .1; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), pitcher. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .joining 887; Fineware. ww painted (700-1120), plate. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 rim. ; Plainware. pedestaled plate, plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), unidentified. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Plainware. LR, amphora. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .2; Plainware. mid byz, amphora. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .incised wavy line | |
| Pottery Summary: | 89 frag(s) 0.62 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 2893 frag(s) 37.4 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron, strips, 7 (saved to lot); worked bone spoon? Needle? Fragment from middle, diam. tapers 0.004-0.003 (saved to lot); iron chain, 2 hooked links, 1 washer, l. 0.052 (saved to lot); iron, key? Wihtout teeth (saved to lot); cement, piece w rounded pebbles, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, bs 9, rim 2 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, bs 1 (saved to lot); iron, blade, 1, l. 0.062, w. 0.043 (saved to lot); iron, nail, shaft, 7 (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, goblet stem, 1 as MF 7241 (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, square bottle, bs 1 (saved to lot); cement, flat on top, 2 (saved to lot); iron nail complete, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, prunted beaker, rim 1 (saved to lot); glass slag, 3 (saved to lot); lamp, shoulder, grape leaves on rim, rays on disk, white marl, as 4166 1st half 3rd c. AD (saved to lot); iron, slag, 17 (saved to lot); iron, hook, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, goblet stem 1, as MF 2772 (saved to lot); lead, strip, 1 with edge folded over 90 degrees (saved to lot); lead, piece, 2 (saved to lot); glass, clear, yellow, bs 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless with 1 blue bottom glass (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, bowl with outfolded rim 1, d. of rim 0.15, as Jalame p 42 (saved to lot); jasper intaglio with Artemis riding a deer, inventoried as MF 2012-33 (saved to lot); iron hook in a strip, l. 0.057 (saved to lot); tessera, white, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, slag, 8 (saved to lot); sawed off worked bone, waste for a bone tool, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, bs 1 (saved to lot); iron, 1, two slices of metal on top of one another or folded over self, corroded, l. 0.036, t. 0.005, t. of one strip of metal 0.001 (saved to lot); bronze, strip, 2 (saved to lot); lamp, shoulder, double pettaled rosette on disk as 70-29 2nd-early 3rd c ad (saved to lot); lamp, L1982-1, but terra rosa, rim w tongue pattern, rays on disk, first half 2nd c. AD (saved to lot); bronze, tack, 1 (saved to lot); tessera, black, 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | 11th c | |
| Grid: | 263.1-262.21E, 1007.06-1009.06N | |
| XMin: | 262.21 | |
| XMax: | 263.1 | |
| YMin: | 1007.06 | |
| YMax: | 1009.06 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.69-86.36m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by George, Charles; Valente, Rossana (2012-06-26 to 2012-06-27) Object: MF 2012 33 Object: MF 2012 39 Coins (22) |
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