| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1018 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Reddish layer in baulk south of pit 871 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1018 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/04/10 | |
| Stratum: | 30%- tile, ceramic sherds, bone, glass, small pebbles, small cobbles | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level down to the E. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | Named but not excavated on 10/4/2013. Thanasis wanted first to dig the later deposits in the northern part of the blue area. Excavated on 11/4/2013. We returned to this context after we worked in north and northwest part of the area. We wanted to open this context to continue removing the baulk south of pit 871 and to understand the activities occuring on the exterior of the Turkish house. Again, we hope to be able to relate this area to the area excavated north of pit 871. 12/4/2013: The possible leveling or dumped fill is quite deep and its bottom seems to be as low as the bottom of Cut 871, which cut it. The dep fill rests upon a layer of rocks and tile, that seem to be a dumped or destruction layer. In addition, just by the NE edge of the context, a possible corner of a structure was revealed. It consists of stones with a layer of tile on top of it and some more pebbles above it, as well as a chalky, light green stone and some reddish possible mudbricks. The soil of the current context continues to the east, in the baulk between cut 870 and 809. The soil comprises also part of the bottom of Cut 871, and therefore Thanasis removed it from the area too, as part of this context. After removing the fill, a number of features below became visible. The south edge next to Cut 809 contains a layer of cobbles and tile with some mortar and seems to be curving north toward a possible corner of a wall, the structure mentioned earlier. To the N of Context 1018 lie the large, flat tiles laying horizontally, which were uncovered earlier this season in 1023. We cleaned these tiles further in this context. We want to know how the two areas of tiles in this area (the broken, jumbled tiles at the south and the larger, flat tiles to the north) relate to the large area of tumbled tiles just south of the Turkish house. Therefore, we will procced with the removal that that area of broken tile and cobbles as 1046 before we return to this area to investigate it further. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. Protogeometic, amphora. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Geometric, oinochoe. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Geometric, skyphos. 4 rims. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. minature araryballos, aryballos. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. cloche lid, cloche lid. 1 rim. ; Fineware. minature kalathiskos, kalathiskos. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. minature unidentified4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. early roman1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. Late Roman amphora 1, amphora. 1 handle. ; Cooking ware. stewpot, as Hesperia 1999, #182 rims. ; Fineware. AfRS, unidentified1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. Late roman amphora 2, amphora. 1 rim. 1 handle. ; Fineware. Pre-Roman70 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 85 frag(s) 0.29 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 282 frag(s) 3.735 kg. (100% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 75 frag(s) 0.82 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Lamp, imitation North African, circular, handle, 1; cupellation bowl, 1; wall plaster, black, 1; glass clear colorless, rim 1, thickened, slightly inturned, rounded; bronze, strip, 1; iron, nail, square shank, 1; glass clear colorless, rim 1, plain straight rounded, bs 1; Marble, finger pestle, 1; bronze, lump, 1; ceramic, stopper, with hole, fr, 1; glass clear unk color, goblet base thickened and rounded; pebble pavement, 1 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2nd half of the 6th c. CE | |
| Grid: | 257.27-255.7E, 1011.24-1012.42N | |
| XMin: | 255.7 | |
| XMax: | 257.27 | |
| YMin: | 1011.24 | |
| YMax: | 1012.42 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.35-86.15m. |