| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6033 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Surface | |
| Title: | Construction floor | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6033 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/04/08 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2009-003 | |
| Stratum: | Ceramic sherds (mainly tile fragments); stones (small to coarse pebbles; sub-rounded to angular; spherical to tabular); 40% inclusions | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | Context 6033 is construction floor covering entire western section of room north of courtyard of Byzantine house. Abuts a surface further to east in this room and decided to remove this context at this time. Decision made to take 7 samples for floration for context 6033 and sieve remainder of soil. This is because context 6033 appears to represent some type of floor or construction floor surface. Large amounts (60-70% inclusions of bone, sherds, stones) of debris in this floor surface. Removal of context 6033 revealed more of western section of wall 6016. Soil is dark yellowish brown clayey silt with 40% inclusions (ceramic sherds; bone; stones). Removal of this context also produced a large amount of bone and some metal. Also some glass and a stone tessera. Interpretation of context 6033 as a construction floor based on belief that around time of house construction, this floor level laid down to serve as foundation for proper floor surface. Hopefully a good date for this context will provide information for the construction history of the house. Have not yet identified foundation trench for wall 5562, but possible that one did not exist. Instead this could be case where wall built on terrace against a baulk. This also suggested by fact that contemporary levels to north are at least 1.0 m. lower. In southern part of context 6033 along edge of foundation trench (5960, 5961) for wall 5463, four fragments of a complete base of a burned ceramic vessel found surrounded by a small concentration of burned earth (coordinates: 1035.89N; 267.37S; 84.38H). Preliminary unwashed identification as Constantinopolitan white ware. Along with more of wall 6016 several other clusters of stones revealed by removal of context 6033 could also represent earlier walls which had been dismantled and covered by this surface. The surface revealed by removal of context 6033 consists of packed earth with few visisble inclusions. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. chafing dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. plate. 1 handle. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 2 handles. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. cup. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), plate. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 3 handles. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100), stewpot. 4 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted slipped (1250-1320), chafing dish. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Byzantine, amphora. 1 rim. 1 handle. 7 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), unidentified shape. 6 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot. 30 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), mug. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100), stewpot. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), chafing dish. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww slip painted (700-1120), unidentified. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 rim. 6 handles. 16 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. inwardly sloping rim stewpot (950-150), stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 rim. 45 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval10 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Byzantine, amphora. 8 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. chafing dish. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. 50 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Premedieval5 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 18 frag(s) 0.22 kg. (72% saved) fineware. | |
| 262 frag(s) 6.71 kg. (68% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 56 frag(s) 0.7 kg. (71% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | 1 bronze nozzle (bellows?); cylindrical with valve opening at the top; .028 x .015; 3 iron tube (cylindrical/half-preserved) (tubes?); glass green transparent, concave base thickened in centre with pontil mark 1; iron tubes 4; small nail 1; 1 black stone tessera .01; 4 iron nails; 1 shell spondulus; 4 scraps iron slag; iron scrap 1; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 5 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 4 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 8 example(s).; Bone- cranial,maxilla with teeth of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 3 example(s).; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 13 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 8 fragment(s). ; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 3 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 fragment(s). ; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 4 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tarsal, astragalus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- tarsal, calcaneus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 example(s).; Bone- ulna of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 fragment(s). 6 other misc. bone(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 3 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s). | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | Late 10th/early 11th | |
| Grid: | 267.47-265.31E, 1035.57-1039.09N | |
| XMin: | 265.31 | |
| XMax: | 267.47 | |
| YMin: | 1035.57 | |
| YMax: | 1039.09 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.39-84.42m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by William Bruce, Scott Gallimore (2009-03-30 to 2009-04-16) Image: digital 2009 0409 |
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