| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5798 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | second to topmost fill of robbing trench for N-S w | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5798 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/06/05 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2008-004 | |
| Stratum: | 15% inclusions: small angular and rounded cobbles, small rounded pebbles, fragments of tile, ceramics | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We reached the end of robbing trench 5791 to the N of Wall 5725 when we encountered a layer of tiles within a harder, flatter soil matrix. Our next move was to follow the robbing trench where we had defined it to the S on 3.06.08; there it stood out as a light-colored stripe in a darker reddish colored soil matrix. We are still attempting to understand how this robbing trench relates to pit cut 5719, which truncates E-W wall 5725. Our question ought to be answered by defining the E-W cut for the robbing of 5725. If the E-W cut goes below the lens of soil that currently forms a diffuse edge of it, then it is the robbing of the N-S wall that happened last. If the E-W cut goes above, however, we are still dealing with an ambiguous chronological timeline of events, since since both trenches will be cutting the same layer. Because the robbing trench to the N proved shallow, that may be one sign that points to a later robbing date. The line of the robbing trench here is much less regular than the line to the N. There, we see straight, vertical edges; here, the lines begin in the same manner, but then fan outward toward the W, making the trench wider. At the same point wher ethe jog in the trench occurs, the exposed soil appears to remain soft in contrast to harder dirt to the N. This part of the trench may have been dug to a deeper limit when the N-S wall was robbed. Or, since the latter layer was subsequently found to go below the edges of the robbing trench, it seems to relate to a level below the robbing trench. This will flag the end of the context. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. Venetian I, bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. aegean sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. prefrankish17 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval36 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. mug. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 58 frag(s) 0.26 kg. (40% saved) fineware. | |
| 669 frag(s) 5.5 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 50 frag(s) 0.65 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | revetment, marble 4 (saved to lot); faience bead l. 0.015 as MF4574, 2 (saved to lot); bronze ring (not jewelry) diam. 0.016, as MF 6103, 1 (saved to lot); lamp, byzantine, suspension loop 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 4th quarter of the 13th century | |
| Grid: | 265.67-264.43E, 1031.34-1034.74N | |
| XMin: | 264.43 | |
| XMax: | 265.67 | |
| YMin: | 1031.34 | |
| YMax: | 1034.74 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.51-84.72m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) |