| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5260 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Foundation trench | |
| Title: | Foundation Trench Fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5260 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/04/16 | |
| Stratum: | Inclusions are tiles, pottery. Stones: large pebbles to cobbles, angular and subround spherical, medium pebbles, subround spherical. %20 | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the E. The soil color is very dark brownish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | We are beginning to excavate the foundation trench, moving from east to west, following the soft dirt. The soil is blackish (put brownish in database) brown and undistinguishable from the surrounding soil by its softness. We are turning up pottery sherds, tiles, cement mudbrick, and bones. While the soil has a reddish tinge, the hue verges on black, blacker than the surronding reddish brown soil. As we move west, the soil becomes somewhat redder but equally as soft. We are stopping just before the scarp on the west, where the soil becomes more compact, harder, and cementlike. As we moved west, the elevation of the trench rose along with the rise in the more compact soil. The cementlike soil at the west and on the scarp is very distinct from the more compact soil that we encountered while moving west. Tile count is 22, weight 5.1 kg. The fact that the foundation trench end before the bottom of the wallway can be explained if it is associated with the reuse of the wall. The trench also ends before the scarp at the west end of the foundation trench. The reuse of the wall may explain this also. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. preroman14 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. nied 77, amphora. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. matte painted, pitcher. 1 handle. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 14 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 60 frag(s) 1.18 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 14 frag(s) 0.06 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bone bos long bone sawn top and bottom 1 unid cranium 1; Bone- fragment cranial of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- fragment horncore of B. taurus (Cattle) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Ruminant, sm (Ruminant, sm) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s). | |
| Period: | Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 3rd early 4th NPD | |
| Grid: | 266.05-265.08E, 1022.98-1023.22N | |
| XMin: | 265.08 | |
| XMax: | 266.05 | |
| YMin: | 1022.98 | |
| YMax: | 1023.22 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.88-85.16m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Jody Cundy and Megan Thompsen (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Nathan T. Arrington and Andrew (Drew) W. Sweet (2008-04-07 to 2008-04-23) |