| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 512 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Pit | |
| Title: | Pit Fill, 1st from top | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 512 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/05/07 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2009-060 | |
| Stratum: | 60%: small- medium subangular pebbles, tiles, pottery | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark pinkish brown. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Pit fill 512 is the first pit fill from top of the pit cut 513, underneath the slumped deposit 511. The pit is located in the room bounded by walls 313 and 332 and was cut at a later point by the pit cut 510. While digging the pit fill deposit context 512, a complete horse cranium discovered leaning against the west wall of the cut, roughly at the central point of the N/S axis of the pit. We were unsure if the pit might in fact be a horse burial, so we left the skull in situ as we proceded with the excavation of te pit fil until it became clear the there was no articulated skeleton in the fill. We discover just south of the horse skull 4 articulated sheep/goat lumbar vertebrae, with the sacrum and innominate also articulated (T.Webb). In the north-eastern coner, the pit fill deposit 513 abutted a mudbrick deposit; it appears that the redeposited mudbrick is the fill of a larger pit and it is cut by the pit cut 513 which pit fill deposit 512 fills. At this point there appears to be a large figure 8 pit cut. It is possible the northern extent of the large pit is either coincident with the pit cut 510 or truncated by it. The dimension of the pit and its inclusion (horse head) indicate that this was a garbage pit and was not an effot to dig a well. This suggests that the pit cut 510 is the cut that truncated the limestone block in the northwestern extent of the pit, which may have been an effort to sink a well, rather than the garbage pit filled by deposit 512. The removal of the pit fill 512 revealed the bottom of the pit at a soil change: the deposit below contains many carbon inclusions and appears to be a further southward extent of the bottom of the pit cut 510. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted, bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 11 rims. 14 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), plate. 1 rim. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), pitcher. 2 rims. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. byzantine 53 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)8 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. veneto, bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval 18 (saved to lot) .; Fineware. sgraffito, slipped style II (1140-1170), plate. 1 rim. ; Cooking ware. folded, stewpot. 4 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. stamnos frankish matt painted, stamnos. 1 rim. 10 handles. 59 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 4 rims. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 rim. 4 handles. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. coarse incised, slipped style V (1200-1220), bowl. 2 rims. 7 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. bowl matt painted, bowl. 6 rims. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. light on dark Iv, slip painted (1100-1125), bowl. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), plate. 4 rims. 9 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 171 frag(s) 1.64 kg. (100% saved) fineware. | |
| 899 frag(s) 10.21 kg. (6% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 272 frag(s) 2.38 kg. (3% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bronze spindle hook 1; marble revetment 4; shell patela 1, cockelle 1, pinna 1; glass blue bead 1, greenish blob 1, clear colourless prunted cup bs 2 as MF 7518 (Corinth XII 744), colourless bs 2, yellow bs 2, brownish conical kich 1, blue bs 10, handle 1, jug w/ applied trail rim 1, yellow rim w/ rounded lip 1; waster 1; quartz 1; stopper marble 1; iron nail 6, shanks 9, ring 1 diam 0.02, strips 2, lump 1; roman lamps 3; Bone- cranial of B. taurus (Cattle) - 1 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Equus sp (Horse, Ass Family) - 1 complete 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) - 1 example(s).; Bone- femur of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 fragment(s). ; Bone- humerus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- indeterminate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 16 fragment(s). ; Bone- mandible of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 8 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of B. taurus (Cattle) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- metapodial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 fragment(s). ; Bone- metapodial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Equus sp (Horse, Ass Family) - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- radioulna of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 fragment(s). ; Bone- radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- radius of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- rib of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 4 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 6 example(s).; Bone- sacrum of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 3 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 9 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tarsal, calcaneus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 4 fragment(s). ; Bone- tibia of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - ; Bone- tibiotarsus of Aves, md (Bird - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 10 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 4 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Teleostei (Fish - Bony) - 1 example(s). | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Late 13th | |
| Grid: | 265.49-264.11E, 1002.89-1005.33N | |
| XMin: | 264.11 | |
| XMax: | 265.49 | |
| YMin: | 1002.89 | |
| YMax: | 1005.33 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.18-86.75m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Stella Diakou and Jody Cundy (2009-05-19 to 2009-05-20) Image: digital 2009 0527 Image: digital 2009 1458 Coin: 2009 82 |
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