| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5397 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Foundation trench fill of wall 5403 first stratum | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5397 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/08 | |
| Stratum: | Mixture of dark greyish brown in the east blending into dark yellowish brown in the west. 20% total inclusions: 10% pottery, 5% fine to coarse pebbles, rounded to angular, spherical and tabular; 5% tile; minimal lime | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is mixed. The soil compaction is compact. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | We are excavating this context because we believe it is a possible foundation trench for the east-west running medieval wall and the director has put high priority on dating that wall and eventually the room. Panos began digging east to west. At first (in the east), the soil was dark greyish brown and changed gradually in the west to dark yellowish brown, but the change was not significant enough to suspect that we actually had two different contexts. In the first pass Panos uncovered a rock jutting out of the north wall which is in line with the western dividing wall and may be part of the same wall- but it appears that there is a break between this stone and the western dividing wall, so if this is a foundation trench, we may find that it cuts this western dividing wall. A martyr was left between this foundation trench and foundation trench 5106 to prevent contamination. There was a higher concentration of tile in the western end of the trench. Between the two dividing walls we came down on another cut and fill. Panos is continuing eastwards to see if we can find the continuation of this lower cut along the northern wall and into the eastern part of the room. We want him to also continue into the 1961 excavation area (this will be done in the next context, a cleaning layer). The foundation trench just excavated (5397) was probably for a later addition to the north wall (since there is another possible foundation trench below it, but we have not reached the bottom of the wall). That is to say that a foundation trench was dug for the north wall (the second cut found) and then another one (5402) was cut into this earlier one when a new wall or addition to the top of the wall was built as a foundation trench for the new part of the wall. Our next step will be to investigate the north wall further by excavating this new foundation trench. Although the stratigraphy suggests two sequential foundation trenches and therefore two walls (one on top of the other), examination of the wall (which is exposed much lower on the northern face) suggests only one wall. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. lid. 1 rim. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. frying pan. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. casserole. 1 rim. ; Fineware. AfRS, form 50. 1 rim. ; Fineware. AfRS, form 60. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. Pre-Late Roman18 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 20 frag(s) 0.1 kg. (5% saved) fineware. | |
| 130 frag(s) 1.72 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 77 frag(s) 0.79 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Iron nail square shank 2; Glass clear blue seawater-worn pebble 1 (saved to lot); slate 2; marble revetment white 1; Bronze flat strip 2; Glass clear greenish bs 1; Bronze shank 1; Glass clear colorless bs 3; roof tile 2; olive pit 1 (natural substances drawer) (saved to lot); wall plaster red 1; Tessera white stone 1 | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 931-44 | |
| Grid: | 275.12-271.83E, 1022.32-1022.8N | |
| XMin: | 271.83 | |
| XMax: | 275.12 | |
| YMin: | 1022.32 | |
| YMax: | 1022.8 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.12-85.39m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Anne C. Feltovich, Catherine W. Person and Emily M. Rush (2008-05-05 to 2008-06-14) Coin: 2008 86 Coin: 2008 87 Coin: 2008 88 |