| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5393 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | 1960s Excavation Backfill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5393 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/08 | |
| Stratum: | Tiles, chert, angular and subrounded pebbles. 25% | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Deposit 5393 is the hump of firmer soil differeniated from the fill deposit 5389 by scraping with a towl before the excavation of the latter. The removal of 5389 revealed both a surface below and the N-W slope of 5393. The deposit 5393 clearly overlies the surface revealed by the bottom of 5389, which continues southward. The deposit 5393 contains some of the chert fragments that characterized 5389. To the west, the removal of 5393 reveals lower portions of the Turkish Wall 5217. To the South-East, 5393 came down on a harder sloping deposit at the base of the cut that appears to be an excavation scarp. A coin is visible within the cut. The southwest portion of 5393 abuts wall 5215, The removal of the deposit revealed another course of stones at a lower elevation that was previously not visible. This course of stones is also the last, as they are sitting on dirt. The layer on which the wall is built has been cut away at the N face of the wall. The cut is vertical. It seems to be the exact same formation as the deposit on which 5360 stood, which was revealed to have been created by archaeological excavation. The cut below wall 5216 is good evidence that the deposit 5393 is backfill after archaeological excavation. The layer exposed in the South East is sloping from the bottom 1/4th of the 'scarp' to a lower level layer; it looks like 'melt' from the scarp. | |
| Period: | Early Modern (1831-1949 AD) | |
| Grid: | 264.79-263E, 1023.8-1026.9N | |
| XMin: | 263 | |
| XMax: | 264.79 | |
| YMin: | 1023.8 | |
| YMax: | 1026.9 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.48-84.71m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Jody Cundy and Megan Thompsen (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) |
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