| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1202 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Blackish semicircular dump fill below lime pit 882 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1202 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/06/06 | |
| Stratum: | 10% tile, ceramic fragments, plaster | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is very dark yellowish black. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey sand. | |
| Notes: | This context is a black deposit under the cut for lime pit 882 and partially overlying the tiles exposed by context 1177. From the baulk formed by the cut to the north, it appears to be a cut and set into the uniform matrix of reddish compact dump fill which covers the remainder of the excavation area at this point in time. The shape of this deposit is semicircular and is truncated by a cut to the north; the original, pre-cut deposit, therefore, may have been circular. (We excavated the area north of this deposit as context 1177.) This proved to be a fairly deep (0.70 m) deposit of dump fill consisting of blackish, clayey soil. At a depth of about 0.40 m from the top of this deposit, we came down upon layers of tiles--the same tiles that we had already exposed by the removal of context 1177. The tiles were mostly large fragments (5-15 cm) and lying flat. Among the other pottery fragments, we also unearthed a section of water pipe. Near the bottom of the deposit we unearthed several pieces of metal. At the very bottom we came down upon a large (50 x 40 cm) section of pebble mosaic flooring, lying flat and extending under the fill to the south and west. We took a photograph. Alongside to the north of the pebble floor, Thanasis pulled out several bricks. At a slightly higher elevation (ca. 5 cm higher than the pebble floor), to the northeast of the pebble floor, there was uncovered a large (40 x 30 cm) cut stone extending E-W, which may have formed part of the wall that had been robbed out. There seems to be a lip, denoting the edge of the floor, along the east edge of the pebble floor, and it seems broken along the north side, possibly to build the wall (?). The south and west edges of the floor, as previously mentioned, continue into the fill. We compared the elevation of this floor (85.11-85.17) to that of the smaller pieces of a similar pebble mosaic surface exposed in the southeast of C870 to the north (85.07) and in the southwest of cut C1110 to the east (85.21). Our section of floor falls squarely in the middle, and could well indicate that a pebble mosaic floor covered a sizeable area of NW Nezi at some point in the Roman period. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. PreClassical17 bodysherds. ; Fineware. unidentified red slip, carinated bowl1 rim. ; Fineware. ESA plate; Fineware. white painted bowl1 rim. ; Fineware. Thinwalled tankard1 handle. ; Fineware. PreRoman36 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 60 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 139 frag(s) 1.5 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 61 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | metal, misc. fragments, 5; metal, nail, with partial shaft, 1, shaft 1; Waterpipe with squared lip, male end, rim 1. Similar to Herbst in Hesperia 80 2011 Type C1 (late 2nd-early 3rd) (saved to lot); Cover tile, apex 1; Roof tile, Laconian redslipped, 1; bronze, spatula end?, 2; wall plaster, red 3, yellow 6, black with yellow stripe 1, white/brown coat 3; pebble floor, 1 | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 2nd-early 3rd century AD | |
| Grid: | 259.59-258.88E, 1009.5-1009.9N | |
| XMin: | 258.88 | |
| XMax: | 259.59 | |
| YMin: | 1009.5 | |
| YMax: | 1009.9 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.04-85.8m. |
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