| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5437 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Pit fill cutting wall 5446, second stratum | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5437 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/12 | |
| Stratum: | 30% total inclusions: 5% tile, 10% pebbles (fine to coarse, rounded to angular and spherical to tabular), 5% cobbles (spherical to platy, rounded to angular), 10% pottery | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is uneven. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We decided to return to this pit to remove the next layer in it and finish out the room. Panos came down on more stones of the eastern dividing wall (5446) but they are not in line and appear fallen to me. One idea about this pit is that it was a robbing pit for the eastern dividing wall (5446) and we are investigating this further. The pottery coming out of this deposit is mostly cooking ware. Panos says this deposit comes cleanly away from the surrounding contexts which makes im wonder if there is a foundation trench for this wall which is filled with the stones just revealed. One big stone turned out to be a large fragment of a pithos. Once we reached the bottom it was clear that this pit cut was cut by the foundation trench of wall 5434. Therefore, our next step is to excavate the foundation trench down to the level of the pit bottom which we suspect is the same level as the bottom of the trench. Under the pit 5437 itself we found a rectangular area of dark, brown soft soil which lines up with the stones of the dividing wall. This area is browner and softer than the hard, red soil surrounding the cut of 5437 and may be the foundation trench for wall 5446. Because this pit was cut by the foundation trench for wall 5434, we are going to finish clearign out this trench which we think will be level with the bottom of the pit. Notes added later: (14/5/08 CWP) The final interpretation of this fill is that it is the fill of a robbing trench in wall 5446. Furthermore, the pithos fragment pulled out turned out to be a fragment of the base of a large red andesite mill stone. Animal bones: a few pig, and highly fragmented indeterminant specimens | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. Roundm, pitcher. 2 rims. 2 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ESA, plate. ; Cooking ware. PRS, pan. 1 rim. ; Cooking ware. Campania, frying pan. 3 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ESB, cup. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Pre-Roman7 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ESA, unidentified. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. MWJ4 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. Imitation, frying pan. 1 rim. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 12 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 94 frag(s) 2.23 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 78 frag(s) 1.14 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass clear colorless base 2; glass clear greenish base 1; glass clear colorless Jalame #300 with incised line decoration rim 1; Type 27 red glazed shoulder 1; Iron nails square shank 6; olive pit 1 (natural substances drawer) (saved to lot); Iron lumps 2; Iron nails round shank 3; Stone tessera white 1; glass clear bluish bs 1; Iron flat strips 2; glass clear bluish bs 1; Diamond tile 1; Andesite millstone base fragment 1 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish bowl with flaring out rim rim 1; Bronze nail square shank 1; Type 27 shoulder 2; Bone- distal frag mandible of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- fragment cranial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 example(s). | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 931-44 | |
| Grid: | 274.35-273.26E, 1020.81-1021.73N | |
| XMin: | 273.26 | |
| XMax: | 274.35 | |
| YMin: | 1020.81 | |
| YMax: | 1021.73 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.05-85.32m. | |
| 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 0072 |
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