| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 500 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Pit | |
| Title: | Pit Fill, 2nd deposit from the top | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 500 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/05/04 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2009-026 | |
| Stratum: | 35% large angular and subangular pebbles, cobbles, tiles, pottery and bone | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark pinkish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | Context 500 is the excavation of the second from the top fill of pit 501. The pit is located west of wall 306 and north of the tile collapse noth of wall 365. This context differs in color form the context above 499; it is also noted that the context contains a lot more clay than 499. During the process of excavation it has not been easy to identify the walls of the pit. On the south side there is a clear cut and the soil making the wall is harder. On the north side the cut seems to go underneath the top of the cut. 5 May 2009 We continued this morning the excavation of context 500. While digging we were able to trace again the cut of the pit toward the north side. It seems that the cut continues down vertically and does not go underneath the surface where the pit is cut into. We think that the area where the pit is cut into is very soft and this is the reason we had problems identifying the walls of the pit. While digging we uncovered large cobbles and bolders which were removed. Underneath the stones, Kostas came upon a hard surface - bedrock or colluvium. This hard surface is also visible on the lower part of the walls of the pit - about 15 cm from the bottom. It seems that while digging this pit they dug in the bedrock before stopping. This might be a garbage pit or an effort to make a well which was abandoned. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. frankish, stewpot. 2 rims. ; Fineware. premedieval 6; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. coarse incised, slipped style V (1200-1220), plate. 1 rim. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325) early, bowl. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. bowl1 rim. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), cup. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. miscellaneous18 rims. 24 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. light on dark IV, slip painted (1225-1260), bowl. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pithos, frankish matt painted relief, pithos. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. stamnos matt painted frankish, stamnos. 2 rims. 3 handles. 20 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)1 rim. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 3 rims. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 69 frag(s) 0.98 kg. (81% saved) fineware. | |
| 334 frag(s) 3.98 kg. (6% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 100 frag(s) 0.7 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | shell unidentified 5; glass, clear, green, goblet (?), base 1; glass, clear, yellow, cup with applied prunts, rim 1, base 1, bs 4, as MF 7518 (Corinth XII# 744); bronze strip 2; shell patella 5; shell cockle 4; glass, clear, blue, base as Corinth XII # 71; revetment, schist marble 1; iron, shank 1; nail head 1; nail 2; glass, clear blue, bottle neck, bs 1; yellow, bs 1; colorless, bs 4; green, bs 1;; shell unidentified 1; shell egg 5; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 5 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 5 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- cranial,maxilla with teeth of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 example(s).; Bone- femur of Aves, md (Bird - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 7 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 10 fragment(s). ; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 3 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- mandible of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- maxilla of Teleostei (Fish - Bony) - 1 example(s).; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- radius of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 8 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 4 example(s).; Bone- tarsal, astragalus of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tarsal, calcaneus of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 fragment(s). ; Bone- ulna of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 fragment(s). ; Bone- ulna of Oryctolagus cuniculus (Rabbit - Domestic) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 4 example(s). | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 3rd quarter 13th C | |
| Grid: | 256.96-256.05E, 1001.06-1001.95N | |
| XMin: | 256.05 | |
| XMax: | 256.96 | |
| YMin: | 1001.06 | |
| YMax: | 1001.95 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.2-86.7m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Stella Diakou and Jody Cundy (2009-05-19 to 2009-05-20) Object: MF 2009 9 Coin: 2009 69 Coin: 2009 70 |
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