Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1009

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1009
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Tile debris west of wall 1007
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1009
Page:		0
Date:		2013/04/09
Stratum:		stones (pebbles, cobbles), ceramics, bone, glass, carbon, iron, bronze, lead, tile
Description:		The soil color is light greyish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt.
Notes:		We begin excavating 1009 on the belief that it is a destruction deposit perhaps laid above the E extension of Floor 961. It is full of tile fragments laid at various angles i.e. not on a homogenous plane. Visible carbon in the deposit prompts us to take a soil sample. The sediment varies in colour, mostly brown but with lenses of gray. Below 1009, excavation reveals a red deposit with many fewer tile inclusions. Tasos finds a fragment of mosaic pavement with black and white tesserae. The underlying red deposit does not extend beneath all of 1009; to the W is revealed another tile debris layer; it is not immediately obvious whether this abuts or is overlaid by the red deposit to the E. Upon consultation with Panos, we agree that the lower debris is simply the continuation of 1009, so we excavate it as such. It fills a small N-S trench running N from robbing trench 994. At the end of the day we leave the context open. The morning of 10 April 2013 the context is finished, leaving the N-S trench below. It appears that pit 847 cut context 1009 partially but not entirely. The same type of tile debris fill is visible in the S scarp of robbing trench 994 in line with 1009 on the N scarp. GDRS observes that these are also more or less in line with cut 956.
Context Pottery:		Cooking ware. flanged bowl, bowl. 2 rims. as hesp 2005 2-45; Fineware. Rom- Unid. R.S., bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .with heavy set rim; Coarseware. LR Amph. 1. 8 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Preroman45 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ER8 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Rom- LRC1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. Niederbieber 77 (MR Amph. 7). 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. basin. 1 rim. as hesp 2005 2-45
Pottery Summary:		59 frag(s) 0.35 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		296 frag(s) 7.3 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		63 frag(s) 0.6 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass clear colorless, bs 6, rim 2; tile with cement plaster, 1; glass clear colorless, goblet foot 1 like MF 1970-140; glass clear blueish, rim 1; marble, tesserae, white and black, 1; glass unk color, rim 1, straight rounded, bs 1; glass cullet(?), 1; marble, white 6, white with purple, 1, white, grey-veined, revetment, 2, pavonazetto, revetment, 1, purple, 1, gray, white-veined, 1; window glass, 3; Carbonized seed, 1; glass clear pale yellow, rim 1 bs 4; schist, grey, opus sectile or pavement, 1 (saved to lot); Shell, 1; pebble pavement 1; glass clear blueish green, bs 6; Bronze, pin?, 1; shell, purple, 2; marble, white, octagonal paver, 2; back of smaller has inscribed Roman numeral X or Greek chi (saved to lot); Pebble pavement, 2; marble, tesserae, white 3; lamp, 2; shell purple, bs 2; Iron, nail, 3, square shank, slag 4
Period:		Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:		2nd half 5th c.
Grid:		269.76-268.15E, 1011.78-1013.15N
XMin:		268.15
XMax:		269.76
YMin:		1011.78
YMax:		1013.15
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.91-86.3m.
References:		Coin: 2013 40