| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1050 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Brown fill NW of wall 1033 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1050 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/04/12 | |
| Stratum: | stones, pebbles, tiles, ceramics, glass, carbon, bone, iron | |
| Description: | The soil color is light brownish brown. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | We begin excavating 1050 from the S, where a narrow pedestal was left beneath wall 992. The context was left open at the end of the day. Excavation resumes Monday morning, 15 April 2013. This morning a clear floor surface has been exposed (it seems to have been cut on its E extent for a trench probably related to the N-S wall 5218 while at the S it runs up against the full of a cut (?) related to the now exposed foundatioin stones and tile of the robbed out wall 1033). To the N and NW the context runs out where the Robinson excavations begin. It is unclear whether those excavations dug out the N and NW extents of the deposits, though it seems likely. Found a fragment of pebble pavement like that found S of the wall. The "trench" with wall 5218 is nothing but an artifact of excavation; the floor surface being exposed beneath 1050 runs up against the wall, or maybe beneath it. Likewise, no cut associated with 1033 at the S, at least not yet: 1050 was deposited directly over the foundation stones. Upon completion of 1050, things are clearer. There is an area W of wall 5218 with softer, darker sediment, with more stones and tile visible. There is a spur running N from 1033 of harder sediment with concrete; it is separated from the foundations of wall 1033 by a narrow strip of darker sediment. This concretey deposit seems to be cut on the W; the line of this cut aligns with a change in the wall foundations: perhaps a channel was cut and later filled in? We will see if more of the concretey deposit is exposed to the W below 1056. In the NW of 1050, the floor surface exposed is overlaid by a deposit of softer, redder sediment; this in turn is overlaid by 1056 to the W. It is to this latter that we turn next. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. Rom- AfRS, Unidentified. 2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. basin. as Hesperia 2005 1-41; Fineware. Rom- AfRS, Form 50A. 1 rim. ; Fineware. ER7 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. cloche lid. 2 rims. ; Fineware. Preroman41 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Niederbieber 77 (MR Amph. 7). 5 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 51 frag(s) 0.19 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 193 frag(s) 3.4 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 209 frag(s) 1.25 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Plaster, painted, red 3; Lamp, Attic post-glazing, BS 1; Tessera, white, 1; Iron nail, round shank, 1, square shank, 1; Lamp, unidentified, BS 1; Attic Glazed Lamp, handle 1; Pebble pavement, 1; Marble, pink, veneer, 1, white, veneer, 4; shell 1; glass light turquoise blue, bs 3 (2 joining), rounded rim 1; glass pale green, bs 2; Bronze nail, 1, L. 0.046 D. 0.005; glass clear colorless, bs 10 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 5th-6th npd | |
| Grid: | 265.98-263.81E, 1014.61-1017.99N | |
| XMin: | 263.81 | |
| XMax: | 265.98 | |
| YMin: | 1014.61 | |
| YMax: | 1017.99 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.43-85.89m. |