Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 1028

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 1028
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Pebble fill S of Turkish area and N of pit 871
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1107
Context:		1028
Page:		0
Date:		2013/04/11
Stratum:		40%; tile, ceramic sherds, abundant fine to medium pebbles, mortar, glass, plaster
Description:		Top slope of the context is level down to the SE. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		We opened this context to continue investigating the area behind the Turkish house in the hope of understanding how the interior and exterior relate to each other. The context is laid against the wall of the house in every area except the small, semi-circular depression near the SE corner exposed in context 1013 and dug as 1030. The context produced some pottery and an iron nail. We paused digging after removing two passes to remove the fill of the hole against the Turkish house, although the fill below this context remains the same as that removed with this context- dark, yellowish brown filled with small pebbles. We then continued digging this context, which had quite a few fragments of tile and small cobbles in it, as well as small fragments of mortar. The high content of tile might be related to the composition of the layer underneath it, which consists of a dense fill of broken tile. We closed this context upon reaching the tile layer in most of the western side of the context. In the east we came down upon a firmly packed surface to the west of pit 870, and another layer of yellowish brown soil to the north of the pit., excavated as 1031.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. ; Cooking ware. stewpot as Hesperia 1999 #187 rims. ; Fineware. preroman13 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. basin as Hesperia 1999#161 rim. ; Coarseware. ccf pitcher, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. vertical wall; Coarseware. small bowl3 rims. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. palestinian, amphora. 8 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. gaza, amphora. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. Late roman amphora 2, amphora. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. late roman amphora 1, amphora. 7 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. table amphora ccf LR 21 rim. ; Fineware. early roman3 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:		19 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		294 frag(s) 1.7 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		117 frag(s) 5 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass clear light blue, window glass 3; glass clear light green, knop goblet stem 1; sombrero lid 1; glass, clear, green, bs, 1, rim, 1; glass, clear, bs, 1; glass clear pale yellow, bs 4, rim 1; iron, nail, square shank, 2; wall plaster, yellow, 1; glass clear pale yellow, rim 2, flared neck with plain rounded rim, restored diam. 0.05, possibly from same vessel (flask?). Cf. Agora XXXIV #231
Period:		Late Roman (5th -6th c AD)
Chronology:		2nd half of the 6th c. CE
Grid:		258.54-255.46E, 1013.98-1015.83N
XMin:		255.46
XMax:		258.54
YMin:		1013.98
YMax:		1015.83
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		85.45-85.92m.
References:		Coin: 2013 49