Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5288

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5288
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		fill in 1961 house courtyard
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		5288
Page:		0
Date:		2008/04/18
Stratum:		40% cobble (13-15), a few tiles, presence of roots, 1 bolder
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light brownish black. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		With this context, we began to explore below the level of the courtyard reached in the 1961 excavation. Although not all parts of the martyr have reached the general level of the courtyard, the contexts now represented in the area of the martyr are discernable elsewhere in the courtyard (i.e. stratigraphically, we must not treat the courtyard as an entire unit). Accordingly, we have changed our plan from 1:25 to 1:50. Our excavation of the courtyard as a whole began in the area where the martyr met the wall blocking up the entrance corridor. Here, there was an east-west running patch of pebble floor (5291) to the south of which lay a zone of fill that seemed to cut into the floor, parts of which could be seen immediately to the south of the western edge of the fill zone. The eastern third of this fill zone is distinct from the rest due to slightly softer soil of only a single color, whereas the western two-thirds (5289) contained mixed soil. The fill of this context contained cobbles and bolders, which may have come from the wall blocking the entranceway or were dumped during the construction somewhere else in the 1961 house. See 5298 for possible construction evidence. This fill was very similar to the fill of 5289, which abutted 5288 on the surface, but also continued under 5288. Thus, either 5288 was cut into 5289 or both were deposited at the same time and the contents of the fill in the area of 5288 did not contain the materials which caused the multi-colored soils of 5289 (i.e. the construction debris dumped in the eastern third of this fill zone [represented by 5288 and 5289] were from a different construction activity, but one that was contemporaneous with the activity that created the debris). The several patches of soil of different colors in 5289 makes it entirely possible that 5288 could simple be another one of these patches.
Context Pottery:		Coarseware. amphora, table1 handle. 2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. amphora3 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. pitcher1 handle. ; Coarseware. pitcher2 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		13 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		4 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Period:		Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:		NPD
Grid:		273.42-272.64E, 1033.99-1034.9N
XMin:		272.64
XMax:		273.42
YMin:		1033.99
YMax:		1034.9
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.66-84.86m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Jody Cundy and Megan Thompsen (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Josh Gieske, Laurie Kilker (2008-04-07 to 2008-04-24)