| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 887 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Pit under 884 W of 540 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 887 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/06/06 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2012-038 | |
| Stratum: | Inclusions: pottery, stones, bones, iron, bronze, glass | |
| Description: | The soil color is light yellowish black. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey sand. | |
| Notes: | While we were digging this context its E edge became clear and we understood that context 884, E 885, was a pit. So we decided to came back to context 884, giving it a new context number 887. We think that 884 and 887 may be equal. 7 June 2012 This morning Thanasis continued excavating 887, but we found out that the distinction between 887 and 885 was artificial, because these two contexts were differentiated only on the base of compaction (887 was harder than 885). So we decided to dig these two fills (887 and 885) as a single context, which we named 887. Even though we did not reach the bottom of this context, Thanasis suggested to stop digging this fill. He wanted to move souther, where it was possible to distinguish a black fill (888), which seems to be the filling of a cut, diggen in red layers. We agreed with Thanasis, because looking at the S section of the robbing trench 759, 887 seemed to go quite deep and we wanted to prevent any kind of contamination. When we finished excavating 888, we came back to 887, but we gave it a new context number, 889. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)2 rims. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. bowl. 8 rims. 8 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. miscellaneous18 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-medieval46 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), bowl. 4 rims. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .no overglaze; Coarseware. matt painted, stamnos. 7 rims. 8 handles. 58 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), bowl. 4 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), bowl. 3 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .1 pierced for mending; Fineware. Semi-glazed, pitcher. 3 rims. 3 handles. 23 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-twelfth century4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. maghreb, bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 124 frag(s) 1.78 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 987 frag(s) 11.47 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 238 frag(s) 1.71 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron tack, 2 (saved to lot); Shell of Scallop (Annachlamys flabellata), worked w holes, 1 (saved to lot); iron, spindle hook, l. 0.028, d. 0.005, corroded, no comporanda for iron (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, bs, 2 (saved to lot); iron, nail, complete square, 2, round 2 (saved to lot); glass, colorless, bs 1 (saved to lot); bronze, spindle hook, l. 0.028 d. 0.004, cooroded (saved to lot); prunted beaker, as MF 76 - 98, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, blue, bs 3, rim 1 (saved to lot); bronze shaft, 1 (saved to lot); bone stylus? Shaft, as MF 75-45, l 0.060 m, d. 0.003 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, rim, 1, bs 2 (saved to lot); prunted beaker, as MF 92-38, base 1 (saved to lot); bronze, flower clamp, Inventoried as MF 2012-53B, joins to MF 2012-53A from Context 889 (saved to lot); iron, linked chain links, 2, d 0.007 m (saved to lot); iron slag, 5 (saved to lot); bone, strip, worked, five strips, three w traces of gold on black portions, flat surface. (saved to lot); iron tack head, 2 (saved to lot); bone, strip, worked, inventoried as MF 2012-45 (saved to lot); bone, strip, worked, three edges preserved, flat surface, w hole, l. 0.094, w. 0.023 (saved to lot); iron strip, 6 (saved to lot); iron, nail, shaft, 17 (saved to lot); bone, strip, worked, inventoried as MF 2012-43 (saved to lot); bronze, spindle hook, l.3.6, diam. 0.005 , corroded, Corinth XII nos.1223-28, esp. MF 06215 13th c. by context. (saved to lot); bronze, strip, 1 (saved to lot); bone, knife handle, Inventoried as MF 2012-48 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 1270 | |
| Grid: | 264.08-262.97E, 1008.97-1010.32N | |
| XMin: | 262.97 | |
| XMax: | 264.08 | |
| YMin: | 1008.97 | |
| YMax: | 1010.32 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.76-86.17m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by George, Charles; Valente, Rossana (2012-06-26 to 2012-06-27) Objects (8) Coin: 2012 60 Coin: 2012 104 |
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