| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1214 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Lower fill of pit 1211 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1214 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/06/07 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2013-026 | |
| Stratum: | Among the inclusions were large pieces of tile, large and small stones, large and small bones/shell, roots, ceramic fragments (coarse, fine, cooking). Inclusions c.80% | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light greyish black. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Deposit 1214 was created after the pottery from Deposit 1200 was read. Because the pottery read from the deposit filling the pit 1211 was sorted into a later, 3rd quarter of the 12th c. CE category, deposit 1214 was created to represent the earlier 11th c. material. Though deposit 1214 was assigned arbitrarily, it corresponds to the pottery excavated from the lower levels of pit 1211, which was dug on the second day of excavating the pitdeposit (6/6/13). The deposit could therefore be dated to the 11th c. with later contamination of upper levels. Problematic with this division, however, are the characteristics of the pit fill: inclusions were diverse-- small and very large (tile, pottery, rocks, bones, etc.) materials that continued throughout the deposit-- i.e., at all elevations. This would seem to suggest that it served as a dump, and represented the period-of-use for cut 1211, likely putting the pit out of use. Rather than seeing this as two deposits that failed to be distinguished strategraphically, the two phases of pottery (11th and 3rd quarter of the 12th c.) could represent a contamination of later material by the eastern cut which truncated pit 1211. Update 18/6/13: It is now clear that deposits 1200 and 1214, which filled pit 1211, was not a self-contained pit fill. The cut 1211 turned out to be arbitrary, and deposits 1200 and 1214 are actually part of a larger bothros, cut 1245. This larger bothros was excavated in 4 arbitrary levels, which will make deposit 1200 roughly equivilent to deposits 1234 and 1238; deposit 1214 is therefore roughly equivilent to deposits 1241 and 1244. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. White Ware Plain, cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .quatrefoil; Coarseware. Incised, pitcher. 5 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. White Ware, mug. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Matte Painted, amphora. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. (saved to lot) .no exterior groove; Coarseware. pithos. 4 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. White Ware, kettle. 1 rim. 7 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Middle Byz., amphora. 4 rims. 21 handles. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. White Ware Polychrome, cup. 1 handle. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Burnished, pitcher. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. White Ware Plain, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .T-shaped rim; Coarseware. fruit dish. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. White Ware Plain, cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Plainware. amphora. 7 handles. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. basin. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .incised wavy line on body; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), dish. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .Chafing dish; Coarseware. basin. 3 rims. (saved to lot) .wave pattern on rim; Cooking ware. Sloping rim stew pot2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. White Ware Slipped, plate. 2 rims. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .folded rim; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)17 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Medieval31 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. White Ware Polychrome, bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. White Ware Plain, dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .pie crusted rim; Fineware. White Ware Sparse Glazed, plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Middle Byz., pitcher. 5 rims. 13 handles. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 69 frag(s) 0.76 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 917 frag(s) 22.1 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 303 frag(s) 5.36 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Revetment: purple 1, green 1, black, 1 (saved to lot); Waster: 1 (saved to lot); Lamp: candle stick, Byzantine: 1 (saved to lot); Soap stone, pietra ollare: 1. invetoried as MF2013-16 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 11th-1/2 12th century (contimated from Frankish pit) | |
| Grid: | 278.08-276.43E, 1007.19-1008.98N | |
| XMin: | 276.43 | |
| XMax: | 278.08 | |
| YMin: | 1007.19 | |
| YMax: | 1008.98 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.9-87.07m. | |
| References: | Object: MF 2013 16 |