| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1084 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Destruction Debris N of Wall 945 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1084 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/04/18 | |
| Stratum: | Stones (pebbles, cobbles, boulder), tile, ceramics, glass, iron, bone, carbon, painted plaster, bronze | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We begin excavating the tile debris of 1084 upon completion of 1083, which exposed it. Also exposed by 1083 was a hard-packed surface in the SW corner, the area beneath Hearth 1065. We begin with the tile debris because it seems to overlay this surface; the debris was cleared by the digging of Pit 845, which left the hard-packed deposit exposed at its bottom. A piece of marble molding. Tile fragments: Th. 0.045; range in dimensions up to ca. 0.20 m. Fragment of pebble pavement, Th. 0.04 m. Pig teeth. Large square-shanked iron nails. Visible carbon, visible destruction: we take a soil sample for water-sieving. Remains of an ant nest about 0.70 m S of that. Context left open at end of day. [19 April 2013:] Resumed in the AM. Context nearly finished. Seems to be the same surface all across, including that exposed to the W by 845 and that to the E by 1082. So the next objective will be the fill E of 1082, which seems to be the same sort of fill as encountered previously: full of scrappy earlier material and little contemporary material. We'll have a go at getting it out by the end of the day. Deposit 1084 continues lower than elsewhere in the NW corner; a body sherd of a pithos is found just S of Wall 918, ca. 30 cm from the W edge of the context. All this seems more like a dump of destruction debris than of destruction debris proper. At the close of 1084 the situation is this: A hard red deposit below most of the context on the E side, exposed also by 1082 to the E. W of this hard red deposit, and probably below it, a deposit dark and full of ash, tile -- maybe a real destruction layer. This extends W to the edge of Pit 1080. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. Niederbieber 77 (MR Amph. 7). 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Rom- AfRS, unidentified. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. thin-walled, beaker. 3 rims. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Preroman113 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Rom- LRAttic, bowl. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. Dressel 7-11?. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .with stamp STAMIVINI?; Cooking ware. cooking pot. 2 rims. as Hesperia 2005 2-38; Cooking ware. cloche lid. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .with broad downturned rim; Fineware. ER7 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Rom- AfRS, Form 50B. 1 rim. ; Fineware. Geometric, skyphos. 1 rim. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 121 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 609 frag(s) 12.06 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 282 frag(s) 1.57 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | pithos, large, bs, 1; Painted plaster, yellow, 1, red, 2, white, 1, black, 1; Tesserae, stone, white, 3, grey, 1, pale red, 1; Marble, revetment, white, 6, grey, 1; glassy slag, possibly part of kiln or basin 1; Pebble pavement, L. 0.09, W. 0.05; Lead-Bronze slag, 1; Marble, white, crowning moulding with taenia, cyma recta and conge, L. 0.170, H. 0.590, W. 0.040; Type XVII lamp, handle 1; glass clear colorless, rim 1; Bronze, unknown, 4; Iron, sheet, L 0.034, 1, unknown, 2; Iron, nail, square shank, Th. 0.008, 3; Th. 0.008, L. 0.088, 1, Th. 0.01, 1; Th. 0.006, 5, round shank, Th. 0.006, 1; glass clear light yellowish green, bs 2 thick and rounded, bs 7 other; glass clear light blue, bs 1, light blue, bs 1, colorless, bs 6, unk color, bs 6 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | mid fifth | |
| Grid: | 264.45-261.98E, 1011.61-1014.54N | |
| XMin: | 261.98 | |
| XMax: | 264.45 | |
| YMin: | 1011.61 | |
| YMax: | 1014.54 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.51-85.61m. | |
| References: | Object: C 2013 8 |
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