| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1211 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Pit South of Fig Tree filled by 1200 | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1211 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/06/07 | |
| Description: | The context shape in plan is oval. The top break of the cut is sharp. The sides of the cut are mixed. The break at the base of the cut is sharp. The base of the cut is tapered blunt point. Truncation: semi-circular/oval because 1211 was truncated on the east by a yet unexcavated cut filled with reddish soil.. | |
| Notes: | The cut is semi-circular/oval in shape because it was truncated on the east by a cut containing reddish soil. Cut 1211 was filled by deposit 1200. Based on the large size of inclusions/debris, and the fact that they seemed to continue as a single deposit throughout, based on stratigraphy and soil (according to all of our workmen), it seemed as though 1211 was likely filled soon after being cut. However, during pottery reading it was suggested by G. Sanders that cut 1211 was actually filled by two deposits; this was because the top levels exposed pottery from the 3rd quarter of the 12th century CE, while the lower levels contained large amounts of pottery from the 11th c. CE. If this is indeed the case, and there were two distinct periods represented by deposit 1200, then pit 1211 had a longer period of use than initially thought. It seems as though pit 1211 served for dump/storage purposes, so large and diverse were the inclusions. Perhaps, rather than seeing this as two deposits that failed to be distinguished stratigraphically, the distinct phases of pottery could be attributed to the eastern cut currently containing reddish soil, which truncated pit 1211, and thus postdates pit 1211 and deposit 1200. The sides were described as mixed because they appear vertical on the west and north, while on the southeastern side the wall appears to be stepped. Update: Now that we have discovered another pit to the west and have examined the pottery from the area, we are able to understand the dating and stratigraphy for this cut. The pit to the west (1229) was a failed pit-- the diggers came down onto the top of Wall 746 and abandoned their project, probably moving immediately W to cut up this pit (1211). Adding to the argument that these pits were roughly contemporary is the pottery from both pits is late 11th-mid 12th (pre-Frankish). Initially there was the notion that this pit (despite the fact that the pottery is 11th-12th c.) had to be Frankish stratigraphically, because we thought that the pit cut deposits 1212 and 1219 (Frankish levels), but it is now clear that these Frankish levels were spill-over levels into pit 1211. Thus, both 1211 and 1229 pits are contemporary and were cut through deposits 1230 and 1234. 1211 cuts 1234 (the latest level it cuts). NEWEST UPDATE: Update 18/6/13: It is now clear that deposits 1200 and 1214, which filled pit 1211, was not a self-contained pit fill. The cut 1211 turned out to be arbitrary, and deposits 1200 and 1214 are actually part of a larger bothros, cut 1245. This larger bothros was excavated in 4 arbitrary levels, which will make deposit 1200 roughly equivilent to deposits 1234 and 1238; deposit 1214 is therefore roughly equivilent to deposits 1241 and 1244. | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Grid: | 277.91-276.53E, 1007.41-1008.65N | |
| XMin: | 276.53 | |
| XMax: | 277.91 | |
| YMin: | 1007.41 | |
| YMax: | 1008.65 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.9-87.07m. |