| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5749 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Leveling fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5749 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/06/02 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2008-015 | |
| Stratum: | 40% total inclusions: 15% tile, 5% pottery, 20% fine pebbles, cobbles: rounded-angular, spherical-platy, minimal charcoal; minimal bone | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is uneven. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil is poorly sorted. | |
| Notes: | There is an intact, possibly nearly complete vessel (rim broken off, neck and part of body visible) visible in this context, and possibly a foundation trench (for wall 5403) going underneath. Therefore we are digging this context to find out if there is a foundation trench and if this vessel is inside the foundation trench cut. This surface has a compact surface like a floor but a very irregular western edge that stops also 2 m short of wall 5483. It may not be a floor but a leveling fill. Underneath floor 5733 because of the irregular edge and because it contains a lot of tile and cobbles, and because the surface is slightly uneven. While digging this context, it was very difficult to find the boundaries. The soil was mixed with patches of hard and soft with no obvious cuts or floors discovered below. Past experience suggests that the whole vessel will be inside a cut, but the boundaries of this cut are not obvious (it is possible that the fill of the cut went over the top of the cut and into surrounding areas, making the edges and top of the cut not obvious). We believe that we can detect in two places where the fill of this hypothosized cut stops, so we will start digging a new basket from here and attempt to define the fill/cut (new basket 5755), or what is left of it. We are arbitrarily closing 5749 now and hope to have a better understanding of what it is and what else is going on after we dig 5755. Revised 4.6.08 ACF: Pit fill 5755 & 5761 must have cut this layer even though we could not originally find the boundaries of the cut. This helps explain the mixture of hard and soft soil. Pit fill 5755 was in association with the whole vessel (inv. # ) and so must have covered the vessel, but where we started this layer (5749), the vessel was partially exposed and became more exposed, therefore the pit fill (5755) covering the vessel must have cut 5749. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. Hellenistic, casserole. 1 complete profile. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-medieval3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), mug. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)7 rims. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 3 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 75 frag(s) 1.73 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 47 frag(s) 0.47 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear bluish goblet base 1 (saved to lot); iron square shank 2 (saved to lot); glass clear yellowish bs 1 (saved to lot); iron lump 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | mid-late 11th | |
| Grid: | 274.72-273.21E, 1023.49-1025.25N | |
| XMin: | 273.21 | |
| XMax: | 274.72 | |
| YMin: | 1023.49 | |
| YMax: | 1025.25 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.6m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Anne C. Feltovich, Catherine W. Person and Emily M. Rush (2008-05-05 to 2008-06-14) |