| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 215 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Robbing trench fill for N-S wall at 269E | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 215 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/06/06 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2007-041 | |
| Stratum: | inclusions 40% : lots of pottery sherds, few bones, coarse pebbles, lots of tile fragments, roots, cobbles, few carbon pieces, 1 bag glass, 1 bag iron | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. Bottom slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish black. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | Basket 215 is a continuation of B207. When we dug B207 we left an area of hard reddish soil and tiles in the northern part of the basket because we thought it might relate to N-S wall at 269E. But because the soft dark soil of the rest of B207 continued below this area of hard reddish soil, and because we did not see stones of the wall below it, we thought that it was more possible that this area belonged to the fill of the robbing trench as well. The excavation proved that we were right. The fill of the robbing trench continued much deeper and further to the south. The basket extended between the two preserved parts of the N-S wall at 269E, the north and the south one. The reddish soil with the tiles was limited only in the surface of the basket. Then the soil was black and further deeper it became lighter with more inclusions. The inclusions of the basket were mainly tile fragments, and pottery sherds, among them a fragmentary chafing dish, and a fragmentary bread stamp. We closed the basket when we reached much harder brown soil which signified the end of the robbing trench. In the southern limit of the basket we were able to see the lower courses of stones of the N-S wall at 269E. But in the northern part of the basket we discovered that there are no stones under the last higher stone of the northern part of N-S wall at 269E. It it possible that the robber preferred to take stones below this preserved stone. Bone : Total count 67 total weight 0.65 | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. mid byz, small pithos. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-byzantine5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plastic, unslipped (1050-1100), chafing dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww slip painted (700-1120), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)3 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. mid byz, amphora. 5 handles. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), cup. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. mid byz, pitcher. 3 handles. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. mug1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. mid byz, stamnos. 3 handles. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. mid byz, fruit stand. 3 rims. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. incised lid2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww unid8 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. incised, unslipped (1000-1100), chafing dish. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. mid byz, basin. 3 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), cup. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 18 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 342 frag(s) 7.17 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 65 frag(s) 0.82 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bone ovis calcaneus 1 metatarsus 1 maxilla 1 mandible 2 (saved to lot); bone sus mandible 1 (saved to lot); iron hook 1 (saved to lot); bread stamp 1 (saved to lot); bone unid ca 20 (saved to lot); shell gaedaropus 1 (saved to lot); bone equus second phalange 1 (saved to lot); glass clear pale green bs 1 (saved to lot); bone canine 1 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish bs1 (saved to lot); byzantine glazed inkwell lamp 1 (saved to lot); shell lima 1 (saved to lot); tile 6 (saved to lot); revetment schist 1 marble white 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 1090-1110 | |
| Grid: | 269.29-268.66E, 1002.26-1003.5N | |
| XMin: | 268.66 | |
| XMax: | 269.29 | |
| YMin: | 1002.26 | |
| YMax: | 1003.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.58-87.12m. | |
| Is Below: | 207 | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lina Kokkinou and Angela Ziskowski (2007-05-21 to 2007-06-09) |