| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5516 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Fill of white clay within pit cut 5498 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5516 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/17 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2008-010 | |
| Stratum: | 15%: large angular platy cobbles, small cobbles, subangular and subrounded, small and medium pebbles, angular, charcoal flecks, pottery (0.07-0.15 m). | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is moderate down to the W. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty clay. | |
| Notes: | Fine clay fill layer 5516 was excavated separately from harder white plastered (?) layers 5499 and 5513 because it was softer in consistency, and finer. Prior to excavation, I speculated that 5516 could represent the same dumped material as that of 5499 and 5513, a white layer dumped across the area bounded by Walls 1, 58, and 71, but I no longer think this is the case. It now seems more likely that layer 5516 excavated here was filling pit cut 5498 as a separate action. Bill has demonstrated that the pit cut goes deeper, so it is not difficult to imagine this as a distinct event. (see also addendum from 20.05.08) The excavation of the whitish-yellowish clayey layer 5516 revealed a number of interesting new filling events for the pit. On the easternmost and westernmost limits of the bottom of the pit as it stands now, there are soft, dark soils that appear to run below the newly exposed harder, darker layer. Their orientation is N-S. On the S edge, the level exposed beneath context 5503 remains exposed, but the pickman has observed a darker, friable border to its N (i.e., past the lower limits of the pit cut- NOT the topmost layer). Definition of the edge of the dark, soft soil has revealed that it goes below the surface exposed below 5503, so that ought to be removed next if it is filling the pit. This confuses me, however, since the top of 5503 was cut by the pit. It ought to represent the boundary, therefore. Upon further exploration just now, it appears to be the case that although the black, soft layers do appear to underlie the exposed harder, darker layer, they appear BOUNDED by the context underlying 5503 to the S. Consultation with G.S. and A.C. has resulted in another interpretation that supports the idea that the edges as they exist are probably the pit's limits. The dark, soft soil probably represents an earlier, lower feature that the pit cut interrupted. This would in turn mean that the harder, darker surface exposed below the clay represents the bottommost extent of the pit. Note, 20.05.08 Reading the scarp of the pit that was remaining this morning, we noticed that large chunks of the clayey layer 5516 appear in the W edge of the rectangular-shaped piece of earth revealed after excavation of 5503. G.S. has suggested that as in the case of the white, plastered layer associated with 5512 and 5499, the white clayey layer 5516 may have actually been a part of a dumping event that filled AND surrounded pit cut 5498. It is necessary to consider what layer 5516 would have overlain. Is it the same as what has been exposed beneath context 5503, or something else? There was maybe only 0.02 m of the context excavated when the rectangle was exposed, and this area had not been touched since 1960s excavations, so perhaps it was lying beneath topfill. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), dish. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320), stewpot. 3 handles. ; Fineware. premedieval6 bodysherds. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 7 rims. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. light on dark I, slip painted (1100-1125), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 2 handles. 17 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 31 frag(s) 0.25 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 333 frag(s) 3.28 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 53 frag(s) 0.45 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Glass, Base with nipples center, cimilar MF 94-34, clear colorless; Glass, Handle, clear green 1; Glass, Base with nippled center, similar MF 94-21m, clear colorless; glass, opaque, white bs 1; glass, clear, green, bs 1; Bone- half mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 3 example(s).; Bone- half premaxilla of B. taurus (Cattle) - 1 example(s).; Bone- most (nearly complete) metapodial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 3 example(s). | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 1300 | |
| Grid: | 263.39-262.39E, 1036.62-1038.21N | |
| XMin: | 262.39 | |
| XMax: | 263.39 | |
| YMin: | 1036.62 | |
| YMax: | 1038.21 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.21m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) |