| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5735 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | dumped fill to W of 1960s courtyard | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5735 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/06/02 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2008-007 | |
| Stratum: | 20% inclusions: fragmented tiles, small angular cobbles, pottery, some bone | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is uneven. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | We noticed on 30.05.08 that this thin strip of soil, approximately 1.30 m W, lay to the W of the robbing trench for wall 5473. It appeared then as distinctly softer and with more inclusion than the harder white surface exposed to the W earlier that week. It appeared that the darker layer might fill a cut into the white layer. While cleaning, we noticed another differentiation within the soft fill. There was a lighter area resting in the middle of the softer soil, also soft. We decided to remove that first, since it seemed to overlie the darker fill within the presumed cut. Upon removing the white fill, we encountered a reddish colored soil with small pebbles, some ceramics, and less tile than the dark layer exposed to the S of this context, which we expected to find beneath this context. Additionally, the removal of the white fill exposed a soft, dark soil with a boundary (vertical, sharp) to the N, cutting the newly exposed red soil. It may be that we have exposed some kind of E-W cut, perhaps relating to a wall spur in the 1960s courtyard. Because we were unable to find the limit of the cut on the S edge, we have decided to proceed in excavating the reddish-colored tile layer to the S. This may help us in determining the nature of the putative cut, and also about whether or not it in fact cuts a homoenous layer. **Note, end of day, 2.06.08: this proved to be a false interpretation, as we realized that we actually had a a series of fills lying against each other, and another subsequent fill was exposed running beneath the white layer. The cut was never there. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), pitcher. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. bowl. 5 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. 11 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. maiolica, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300)5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. 2 handles. 4 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 22 frag(s) 0.16 kg. (77% saved) fineware. | |
| 272 frag(s) 3.2 kg. (8% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 65 frag(s) 0.52 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass, clear, blue, 2 bs; glass, clear, green, 1 bs; glass, light green, clear, with applied brown thread, 1 bs | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 4th quarter of the 13th century | |
| Grid: | 265.5-264.15E, 1032.42-1034.6N | |
| XMin: | 264.15 | |
| XMax: | 265.5 | |
| YMin: | 1032.42 | |
| YMax: | 1034.6 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.72-84.79m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) |
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