| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 640 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Drain Fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 640 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/04/03 | |
| Stratum: | 2% inclusions. Ceramic sherds, one mud brick fragment and two bone | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the SE. The soil color is dark brownish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silt. | |
| Notes: | 3.4.2012 After removing the large stones from the well head (346/671), it became clear that the well construction cut the drain, making the drain the earlier structure. It was decided to excavate the drain next in order to determine its extent at this time and to explore its connection to the well (346/671) and to the east-west wall (366). The drain fill is bounded to the east-west by roughly worked limestone blocks in a regular course. On the eastern wall, a very large (about 70 cm long) limestone block was observed (426). These walls cut into the fllor bounded by walls 366, 332, 365 and 306. The drain's fill was sieved and it contained bones as well as pottery as well was a broken brick. It appears that both the wall and the well cut into the drain. The wall's (366) stones extend into the space where the drain would have continued. However, the junction is difficult to determine, as much of wall 366 was robbed out including the position by the drain (C 497). There is no opening in the side of the well. We photographed the drain's opening into the robbed foundation trench of wall 366. The width of the drain fill at the northern end is 27 cm and the height is 19 cm. At the southern end the dimensions are 12 cm in width by 11 cm high. The floor of the drain is firm to hard silt. No stone blocks or tile marked the bottom of the drain, and the soil there did not appear to be different from the matrix on each side of the drain (426), though harder packed. This compact surface was carefully scraped away prior to continuing excavation. 5.4.2012 When context 646 (cut by drain 426) was excavated, a skin was left around the edges of the drain. This skin, and the skin left between the drain fill 640 and the well 346/671, was removed to better see how the drain relates to the well. After removal, the well still appears to cut the drain, as there is still no opening in the well side corresponding to the drain. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), kettle. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 rim. ; Coarseware. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. middle byz amphora | |
| Pottery Summary: | 1 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 54 frag(s) 0.52 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 10 frag(s) 0.09 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass, clear, blue, bs 1; glass lump, opaque,brown and black, possibly from industrial use, 1 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 12th c | |
| Grid: | 260.3-259.94E, 1004.92-1006.26N | |
| XMin: | 259.94 | |
| XMax: | 260.3 | |
| YMin: | 1004.92 | |
| YMax: | 1006.26 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.67-86.82m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Angele Rosenberg-Dimitracopoulou (2012-04-03 to 2012-04-20) |