Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 163
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 163
Area:   Nezi Field
Title:   Martyr of pit/well
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1100
Context:   163
Page:   0
Date:   2007/05/23
Stratum:   Inclusions: 35% small pebbles, 5% cobbles, some small roots
Description:   Top slope of the context is level. Bottom slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   This basket is simply removing the martyr from around the pit which was left in place from earlier excavation of B 145. This basket is equivalent to B 145. The martyr is only ca 15 cm thick at its widest, thus this is a small basket with little of note.
Finds; bone, pottery, obsidian
Context Pottery:   Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300)1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. coarse incised, slipped style VI (1200-1220)2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. duochrome, slipped (1100-1140); Fineware. fine incised, slipped style V (1170-1200)1 rim. ; Fineware. glaze painted Iv, slipped (1110-1130)1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:   12 frag(s) 0.09 kg. (8% saved) fineware.
    63 frag(s) 0.5 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    12 frag(s) 0.12 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   bone ostrea 1; bone sus third phalange 1; iron lump 1; obsidian worked max. P.L. 0.015 1; bone unid 15
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   mid 13th century
Grid:   271.94-269.85E, 1006.47-1009.56N
XMin:   269.85
XMax:   271.94
YMin:   1006.47
YMax:   1009.56
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   87.11-87.28m.
Is Above:   188
Is Below:   144
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lina Kokkinou and Angela Ziskowski (2007-05-21 to 2007-06-09)