| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 929 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Destruction Layer with Tile E of Wall 540 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 929 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/06/13 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2012-047 | |
| Stratum: | pottery, tiles, bone, pebbles, cobbles, iron, glass, bronze; 20% inclusions | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | This is the destruction layer with tiles that abuts (or perhaps is underneath) the E face of wall 540. Three light, yellowish toads, 40% green spots, were recovered. They seem to live in the wall that forms the N boundary of the context. Iron recovered. Recovered glass. Another iron nail recovered. And another. A red lamp (?) with a cross recovered. Coin # 141 recovered in screen. Black glass recovered, as well as another iron nail. More painted wall plaster, red, recovered - like that from context 923 above the tiles? In the SE of the context Panos has noticed a patch with ash. In our second pass two more iron nails and a lamp recovered. Coin #144 recovered (E 265.19 N 1012.99 H 86.19). More iron as well. Another lamp and more nails. We have taken a sample for water sieving after noticing carbon. Three more nails and bronze fragment from sieve. More iron and glass recovered. More iron recovered. RM had idea of possible roof beam collapse to explain large quantity of iron nails. Two olive pits recovered. There is less bone in the S part of 929. Panos has discovered mudbrick in the N part of 929. A piece of flooring ''mosaic'' uncovered near N wall with larger, less densely packed pebbles. More bone has been noticed in the NW of the context near where 540 joins with the N wall. Many of the large iron nails are being recovered in the area abutting the N wall. Another piece of iron, perhaps a lock, from the same area. Also a large glass BS. More large tiles have been uncovered in the NE against the N wall, along with some sherds of large vessels, some of which have been visible since the excavation of C784 fill (context 765?). The tile destruction layer here clearly continues beneath wall 540, and can be seen W of wall 540 in team Blue's area in the scarp of C845. Large, slightly curved pan tile recovered, broken on two edges but preserved to width 0.29 and length 0.25. Red fabric. Also tiles with light yellow or orange fabric. Another coin recovered from the sieve (#145). Another coin recovered from sieve (#147) along with glass. Another coin recovered from sieve (#148). Panos believes he has uncovered a floor in N area of the context. There is a small divot in the floor filled with lightish dirt at E264.88 N1013.80 H86.04. Glass slag or misfired ceramic recovered at floor level. Started second bucket of pottery. Context left open at end of day. 14 June 2012: Note: portion of this context W of wall 540 was excavated today by team blue as context 934. We have had to section this deposit since wall 540 runs on top of it; the portion immediately underneath wall 540 cannot be excavated this season. Panos is sick; Thanasis (foreman) is our pickman today. The floor is almost entirely exposed in the area of 929. After consulting with Guy we have decided to draw an arbitrary line along the N-S axis on the E side of this context and halt with the excavation of the floor. We are clearly earlier here than elsewhere in Pink, and it is necessary to catch up. Guy thinks wall 807 was robbed out prior to the floor at the bottom of 929. The upper courses, however, are later than or roughly contemporary with the floor. It is possible that the floor uncovered earlier (S915) is the same as 929, but we are not certain. At any rate, Guy thinks that the floor surface at the bottom of 929 may run to the E and be associated with cement walls 746, 851, and the N walls the form the NE and NW boundaries for Pink. We are therefore switching to excavate the area S of 807 in order to understand the situation of wall 807 and further clarify Pink. Two bronze fragments recovered. Thanassi uncovered ash in the S quarter of the context lined with tiles and believes it to be a hearth. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. palestinian amphora2 rims. 2 handles. 16 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Rim as Hesperia 99 #181 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. basin as Hesperia 05 3-464 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. LR Amph 25 handles. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. cooking pot as Hesperia 05 #3-311 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. AfRS Form 99, bowl. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. 1 complete profile. (saved to lot) .Joining 931; Cooking ware. cooking pot as Hesperia 99 3-323 rims. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Early Roman18 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Gaza amphora2 rims. 1 handle. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. LR Amph 11 handle. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher as Hesperia 05 3-433 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. AfRS Form 1051 rim. (saved to lot) .Non joining 931; Fineware. Pre-Roman34 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 60 frag(s) 0.39 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 1424 frag(s) 11.9 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 524 frag(s) 3.7 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass, opaque, brown, rim, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, greenish blue, tubular ring foot, base, 1 (saved to lot); plaster, unpainted, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, greenish yellow, bs, 6 (saved to lot); glass, clear, greenish blue tinge, 1 (saved to lot); gypsum, white, 3 joining fragments, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, green tinge, rim, 1 (saved to lot); glass, green, similar to MF 9764, base, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, bs, 1 (saved to lot); wall plaster, painted, traces of blue, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, rim, 1 (saved to lot); iron, spike, splits at top for ring or prongs, 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail, shaft only, rectangular shaft, 12 (saved to lot); wall plaster, painted, yellow, 1 (saved to lot); plaster, painted, red, curved design?, 1 (saved to lot); tile, painted, red, 1 (saved to lot); lamp as L69-209, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, greenish blue tinge, 1 (saved to lot); bronze, fragments, 2 (saved to lot); wall plaster, painted, yellowish red?, 1 (saved to lot); iron, cleat (not the shoe variety), similar to MF 92-47, 1 (saved to lot); iron, nail, rectangular shaft, 24 (saved to lot); marble, white, 3 (saved to lot); lamp as cat. No. 1455, 1 (saved to lot); lamp as L4113, 1 (saved to lot); tile, unpainted, 1 (saved to lot); plaster, painted, red, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, greenish yellow, tubular ring foot, base, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, green, rim, 2 (saved to lot); middle roman lamp, 6 (saved to lot); mosaic floor, small multicolored pebbles as in 879, 1 (saved to lot); schisty marble (?), slab, 1 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, bs, 9 (saved to lot); glass, clear, green tinge, bs, 7 (saved to lot); glass, clear, colorless, bluish tinge, bs, 8 (saved to lot); imitation North African lamp, handle, 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | early 7th | |
| Grid: | 266.57-264.59E, 1011.47-1014.74N | |
| XMin: | 264.59 | |
| XMax: | 266.57 | |
| YMin: | 1011.47 | |
| YMax: | 1014.74 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86-86.43m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Kyle Mahoney and Rachel McCleery (2012-05-28 to 2012-06-15) Coins (5) |
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