Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1196

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1196
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Stone feature with posthole
Category:		Structure
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1196
Page:		0
Date:		2013/06/05
Description:		Structure materials: 2 blocks of worked stone. Material size: .90m x .28 x .19. Material finish: worked--squared with tooled surface. Material construction: N/A. Material bonding: N/A. Features: central hole for post; tooled surface.
Notes:		Stone structure 1196 emerged as a feature first during the excavation of deposit 1181, where the area east of tile feature 1182 had been disturbed down to the top level of 1196 stones; the posthole and east face of structure 1196 was found during the excavation of deposit 1193. In the center of the worked face of the two stones is a rounded hole ca. 19cm deep, which likely contained a wooden post or column of some sort. Excavation of the posthole was executed along with with the earth from deposit 1193, and yielded nothing in the way of carbonized remnants. The stone structure consists of two stones separated from one another by ca. 1.5cm. The southern stone measures .52m in length x .28m in width, and contains the posthole at its northern end (c. 19cm deep, diameter 18.5cm). The nrothern stone measures ca. .38m in length x .28 wide, and is taller than the southern stone by c. 3cm. Both stones function as a unit--the posthole lies in the center of both together. 1196 roughly paralells the eastern edge of tile feature 1182 (although they had no physical relationship and the top of the stones is at a lower elevation). Perhaps there was a superstructure (now robbed out) here and the tile feature fits in with a later phase of the building, or perhaps the tile feature doesn't belong with this building at all, but rather with deposit 1193 (which overlies 1196). The latter is more likely, as the post/column would block access to the tile feature anyway. Only further excavation will reveal the relationship of the stone feature to the area immediately west, and whether it was a threshold or wall block. The feature has a terminus ante quem of the second half of the 4th century BC due to the fact that the floor upon which the stone feature sits was cut for the deposition of the Late Classical stewpot (1217), which dates to the second half of the 4th century BC.
Period:		Classical
Chronology:		taq 2/2 4th century BC
Grid:		276.67-276.23E, 1012.77-1013.64N
XMin:		276.23
XMax:		276.67
YMin:		1012.77
YMax:		1013.64
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.45-85.68m.