| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 466 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Dumped Fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 466 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/04/13 | |
| Stratum: | pebbles, tiles, pottery, bone, a few boulders. 40% | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Context 466 comprises the SE corner of our excavation area, bounded on the E by B54 and on the S by robbing trench 451. This reddish brown soil was revealed by the removal of a reddish soil in context 465. We are removing this soil to try and find a compacted brown soil, which we have observed to the N and which we believe runs under this soil. There are a few larger stones in the desposit and a chunk of clay that suggest that this deposit was laid down as either dumped fill after robbing activity or as part of the natural decay of the walls here. As we dig further into this context we find a line of three stones running E-W from the edge of the robbing trench. Further to the W we find large chunks of degraded building material (plaster) just N of the intersection of walls 366 and 332. Panos has been coming down on a compacted, reddish soil which looks like a possible floor. The three rocks lined up E-W seem to be the remains of a line that would have met two large flat stones coming off of wall 366 at a right angle. Placed in relation to the walls that used to exist at B54 and 451 this would have formed a rectangular pen at the corner of B54 and wall 366. This pen had a reddish floor. Where the two lines of stones would have met is a pit which looks to be filled with a different soil, broken roof tiles, and stones. On the N of the line of stones we have come down on the brown soil we expected to find, although on the NE corner of the line of stones (next to B54) we observe the faint line of another cut in the brown soil that may come down on a reddish soil similar to that on the floor to the S of the stones. We are now closing this context to excavate the contents of the pit. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)2 rims. ; Coarseware. triangular rim amphora (1100-1260)1 rim. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. stamnos. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. premedieval2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ww slip painted (700-1120), plate. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. amphora. 3 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 4 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 71 frag(s) 1.36 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 15 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron, nail, 2; lime cement wall plaster 2 chunks; Bone- cranial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).; Bone- ulna of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s). | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | early 12th c. | |
| Grid: | 264.04-261.77E, 1007.15-1008.74N | |
| XMin: | 261.77 | |
| XMax: | 264.04 | |
| YMin: | 1007.15 | |
| YMax: | 1008.74 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.9-87.09m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Stella Diakou and Cavan Concannon (2009-03-30 to 2009-04-16) Image: digital 2009 0418 Image: digital 2009 0419 |
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