Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5688

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5688
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		Tile redeposition layer
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		5688
Page:		0
Date:		2008/05/28
Lot:		Lot 2008-012
Stratum:		total 55%; 20% pottery, 20% tile, 10% coarse pebbles-cobbles, rounded-subrounded, spherical, 5% bone
Description:		Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		We are excavating this tiley layer to see if it is a destruction layer (from roof collapse) or redeposited roof tile. We hypothosize that it is redeposited because the tiles are very fragmentary and they are mixed with lots of bone. The room is William Berg's "room K" in notebook 229. After excavation we concluded that it is redeposited tile and not an in situ destruction. The tile pieces are all small and fragmentary, nothing mends, and it is mixed up with a lot of pottery, cobbles, and some bone. Excavation revealed a floor underneath that is cut by the bathros in the east and has inderterminate boundaries on the west half of the room in the south west of the room there is softer soil with tile and pottery which appears to either cut or lens over the floor, so we will excavate it first. Tile: 223 pieces, weighing 35.88 kg
Context Pottery:		Fineware. ww slip painted (700-1120), dish. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pithos. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. ww, mug. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww polychrome (1050-1120), plate. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pithoid jar. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 12 handles. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), mug. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), cup. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 handle. 7 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. beaker. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-medieval17 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww polychrome (1050-1120), cup. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), chafing dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 1 rim. 1 handle. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)4 rims. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:		22 frag(s) 0.24 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
		773 frag(s) 14.73 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
		132 frag(s) 2 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		Iron nail square shank 5; glass clear greenish stemmed goblet stem 1, base 1; revetment marble 6 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish neck 1; glass clear yellowish bs 1, clear bluish bs 1; glass clear greenish as Jalame 299 bottleneck 1; glass tessera opaque bluish 1; Iron lump 7; iron knife blade L 0.094, 1; glass clear greenish handle 1
Period:		Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD)
Chronology:		1090-1110
Grid:		274.2-271.3E, 1023.4-1025.9N
XMin:		271.3
XMax:		274.2
YMin:		1023.4
YMax:		1025.9
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		84.67-84.85m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Anne C. Feltovich, Catherine W. Person and Emily M. Rush (2008-05-05 to 2008-06-14)