Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1121

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1121
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Dump fill of West robbing trench north of W 918
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1121
Page:		0
Date:		2013/05/15
Lot:		Lot 2013-011
Stratum:		40%; tile, ceramic, stone, wall plaster, bone, shell, millstone, glass, loomweight, bronze, marble reventment
Description:		Top slope of the context is slight down to the S. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		We are excavating the dense dumpfill between cut 1117 and deposit 1120 (N. of wall 918). This is the W of two (seemingly homogenous) dump fills. This fill is truncated to the N, revealing a shallow squared depression and separated from cut 1117 with a narrow clayey hump. We are excavating thie context to determine the exact stratigraphy of the area. Does 1117 cut a homogenous dumpfill layer? Or, does this and its brother tile fill to the E (context: 1124) cut the deposit of 1117, thus representing two robbing trenches of parallel walls? Excavation of this W dump fill should also help reveal the function of 1120 and the contexts underlying it. The fill is heavily tiled (each approximately 15x15 cm) and has medium to very large stones. During the excavation, the foundation of wall 918 to the S. was revealed. The wall is rubble built of one course; underneath, there is a foundation of tiles and cobble. Underneath this is a very large stone (extent undefined)(. There were roughly flattened stones at the N of the trench exposed in the 1970s. We found the continuation of this wall at the bottom of the trench continuing under 918 into the pit to the S. It was difficult to tell if a foundation trench was intact (They did find a thin black layer to the W) so it's difficult to tell if 918 robbed the other wall in this trench. We left a martyra to the N. to aviod contamination.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. preRoman98 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. meter bieber2 handles. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .as Hesperia 2005 2-38; Fineware. Sicilian green and brown, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Early Roman5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .as Agora M-234; Fineware. Attic Stamped, plate. (saved to lot) .imitation AfRS 82 or 86; Cooking ware. bowl. 1 complete profile. (saved to lot) .as Hesperia 2005 2-42; Fineware. AfRS, form 59. (saved to lot) .form 59; trace of gauge on outer wall
Pottery Summary:		98 frag(s) 0.58 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		400 frag(s) 13.56 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		98 frag(s) 0.97 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		bronze lump, 1 (saved to lot); glass, white clear 1 bs; clear colorless 4; blue clear 1 bs (saved to lot); loomweight, as profile IV (late 6th BC). L. 0.083, weight 0.12 (saved to lot); lead lump, 1 (saved to lot); loomweight with GLYK stamp; cf Corinth XII no. 1153 (saved to lot); gray marble revetment (saved to lot); millstone 1 (saved to lot); iron, 3 rounded nails: L. 28 Diam. 18; L. 48; L. 33 (saved to lot); wall plaster red 9, black 1, white one (saved to lot); 4 white with blue revetment (saved to lot); iron, 3 lumps (saved to lot); gray and white marble revetment 6 (saved to lot); 8 white marble revetment (saved to lot)
Period:		Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:		mid fifth c CE
Grid:		261.13-260.13E, 1014.87-1017.73N
XMin:		260.13
XMax:		261.13
YMin:		1014.87
YMax:		1017.73
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.5-85.64m.