Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 5388 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Basket | | Name: | | Nezi Field, context 5388 | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context Type: | | Fill | | Title: | | Leveling fill below floor | | Category: | | Deposit | | Notebook: | | 1101 | | Context: | | 5388 | | Page: | | 0 | | Date: | | 2008/05/08 | | Stratum: | | 10% total inclusions: 5% fine to medium pebbles with some coarse, spherical, rounded to angular; 5% pottery and a few pieces of tile | | Description: | | Top slope of the context is uneven. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | | Notes: | | We are digging this context because it overlies the western dividing wall and we want to see if we can uncover the tops of foundation cut for the dividing wall. Also, since this context abuts the east-west running medieval wall to the north, we are interested to see if we uncover a foundation trench for this wall, which director Guy Sanders says is much later than our room.
In the northwest corner of this context Panos uncovered a terracotta head of a satyr with theatrical grin. It appears that we are coming down on the top of another cross wall, this one aligned with W22. Also, we have come down on the top of a possible foundation trench for the east-west running medieval wall, the wall which Sanders suspects is later. The soil of this possible foundation trench fill is soft like the surrounding soil, but a noticable different color: it is lighter and redder, whereas adjacent soil to the east of the western dividing wall is darker and greyer, and adjacent soil to the west of western dividing wall is also darker and greyer and has more carbon. It seems like this possible foundation trench cuts the two dividing walls in the interior of this room. This must be confirmed by excavation (we will excavate this trench next, after a cleaning layer in the area of 1961 excavations to determine the boundaries of this trench). Nate Andrade and Matt Baumann excavated the foundation trench for what is possibly this same wall but two rooms down and to the east (done last session). The fill of that trench should be compared to our next context (5397). | | Context Pottery: | | Cooking ware. beaker. 1 rim. ; Fineware. Pre-Roman15 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ESB, unidentified. 1 rim. ; Fineware. bowl. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. flat lid. 1 rim. ; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. ; Fineware. 3 bodysherds. ; Fineware. LRC, unidentified. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. Nied 772 bodysherds. | | Pottery Summary: | | 20 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | | | | 116 frag(s) 1.53 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | | | | 56 frag(s) 0.45 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | | Context Artifacts: | | glass clear greenish bottle neck 1; glass clear colorless with embedded blue threads bs 2; Painted wall plaster orange and black 1; glass clear colorless bs 1; glass clear brownish bs 1; glass clear greenish bs 2 | | Period: | | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | | Chronology: | | 931-44 | | Grid: | | 274.86-271.8E, 1021.55-1022.8N | | XMin: | | 271.8 | | XMax: | | 274.86 | | YMin: | | 1021.55 | | YMax: | | 1022.8 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | Masl: | | 85.36-85.5m. | | References: | | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Anne C. Feltovich, Catherine W. Person and Emily M. Rush (2008-05-05 to 2008-06-14)
Image: digital 2008 0063
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