Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 5055
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 5055
Area:   Nezi Field
Title:   Pit fill under E end of N wall of Rm F
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1100
Context:   5055
Page:   0
Date:   2007/05/11
Lot:   Lot 2007-026
Stratum:   Firm dark reddish brown sandy silt with 40% inclusions: small stones, broken tiles.
Description:   Top slope of the context is slight down to the SE. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the SEThe soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is very poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   This is the third recently excavated context of possible pit fill under the E section of the N wall of Room F, W half, probably to be identified with the pit excavated in B 5034.
Context Pottery:   Cooking ware. stew pot with micaceous fabric cf. Hesperia 98 no. 171 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. nied771 handle. ; Cooking ware. as Hesperia 94 No. 37, stewpot. 1 rim. ; Fineware. AfRS form 501 rim. ; Cooking ware. cloche lid1 rim. ; Fineware. AfRS unid, plate. ; Cooking ware. similar to Hesperia 94 no. 50, basin. 1 rim.
Pottery Summary:   5 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (80% saved) fineware.
    18 frag(s) 0.38 kg. (6% saved) coarseware.
    23 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (13% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   shell murex 1 (saved to lot); marble gray speckled 1 (saved to lot); tile 6; bone nozzle? worked 1 (saved to lot); glass clear light yellowish Diam. 0.08 rim 1 light greenish BS 2 opaque white bent rim 1 (saved to lot)
Period:   Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD)
Chronology:   late 3rd - early 4th
Grid:   270.81-270.1E, 1020.02-1020.7N
XMin:   270.1
XMax:   270.81
YMin:   1020.02
YMax:   1020.7
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   85.31-85.57m.
Is Below:   5053
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Heidi Broome-Raines (2007-04-30 to 2007-05-18)
Coin: 2007 148