| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 188 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Exterior surface | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 188 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/05/30 | |
| Stratum: | Inclusions: 20% small pebbles, less than 5% cobbles, Soil quite homogenous | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. Bottom slope of the context is slight. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is moderately sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | B188 is the removal of a thin hard and flat layer of soil over a large area across the trench. It may be an exterior floor surface. It extends North past the E-W foundation trench and up to the N-S wall west of the giant well/pit. We are digging this to expose the stones just W of the pit (B151 and B186) to determine if the material E of these stone would cut nto that which is West of it or vice versa. We are exposing more stones running N-S (starting at the Southern edge of the trench) which seems to suggest there is a wall of some sort and this basket sits on top of it. The rocks run parallel to the possible wall W of cut 186. Thanassis is trying to track the edge of the basket/layer and it appears that is it separated by a harder layer to the E. For the size of the basket, we are finding comparatively little pottery, especially considering that B 145 pulled up so much. The basket is exposing a number of different layers below it. In the east, there seems to be a darker, pebbly layer that runs under what we are digging now. In the west, more stones are appearing near the N-S wall as well as a more compact, orangish soil. The area of the basket just south of the foundation trench and east of the large pit/well is pulling up a large amount of bone, more than in other areas of the basket. We are seeing in the north that there is a harder, lighter layer of soil underneath what we are digging and this may meet with the soil exposed north of and inside the foundation trench of the E-W wall. After much discussion, we continue to dig north of the E-W foundation trench. Alicia and I agree that it is the same soil but Bill seems to think that it is harder. Most likely this is because it baked in the sun. But Alicia asserts after a rain that the colors were clear. It seems to have been the same soil in the end. After establishing the limits of the layer/basket in the first pass, we are taking a second in areas where it appears to be thicker and the same soil. This second pass is revealing in the south a pebbly floor layer as well as a softer, dark red layer north and west of the pebbly material. An ashy patch of soil has been exposed between and just to the east of the two pits. There is also a patch of stones in this area. Finds: Pottery, bone, iron, coins, glass, bronze, iron nail | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 21 rims. 36 bodysherds. ; Fineware. glaze painted I, slipped (1110-1130), bowl. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)2 rims. ; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)9 rims. ; Fineware. light on dark II, slip painted (1160-1200), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. glaze painted III, slipped (1160-1200), bowl. 2 rims. 5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. measles, slipped slip painted sgraffito (1140-1160)3 rims. 5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300)15 rims. 54 bodysherds. ; Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. glaze painted I, slipped (1110-1130), pitcher. ; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 2 rims. 5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. early champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1170-1200); Fineware. archaic maiolica, slipped (1270-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. frit1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. dark on light slip painted, slipped (1140-1180), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. matte painted proto geometric, stamnos. 1 handle. ; Cooking ware. hole mouthed, stewpot. 3 rims. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)14 rims. ; Fineware. aegean sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260)1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), kettle. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. amphora stand1 complete profile. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pilgrim flask. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), dish. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. coarse incised, slipped style VI (1200-1220), bowl. 3 rims. 8 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. plain, bowl. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. matte painted, stamnos/pitcher. 1 rim. 8 handles. 34 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 277 frag(s) 3.35 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 1463 frag(s) 23.6 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 303 frag(s) 3.51 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass 3; shell patella 1; shell lima 2; iron nodule 2; bone ovis mandible 10 scapula 9 astragalus 1; glass clear yellow bs 1; glass irridescent black bs 1 (similar in color to MF 4302); bronze strip 1; candlestick lamp base 2; glass clear white bs 1; bone bos molar 3; iron lump max. P.L. 0.075 1; bronze nail shaft incomplete 1; bone sus maxima 5 molar 2; bone unid ca 200 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | ca 1250 | |
| Grid: | 274.91-269.15E, 1001.5-1010.99N | |
| XMin: | 269.15 | |
| XMax: | 274.91 | |
| YMin: | 1001.5 | |
| YMax: | 1010.99 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 87.01-87.24m. | |
| Is Below: | 145 | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lina Kokkinou and Angela Ziskowski (2007-05-21 to 2007-06-09) Coins (5) |