| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6516 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | dumping fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 6516 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/05/29 | |
| Stratum: | Soil was light reddish brown. The east side of the fill has 70% inclusions of mostly large angular spherical boulders and some ceramics including pithos and amphorae sherds. As we excavated from east to west there were fewer inclusions and the boulders | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the W. The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Context 6516 consists of a dumped fill in the room directly north of the courtyard in the Byz. House. The inside perimeter has been excavated down to a level believed to be late roman. 6516 lays in the middle of room contained by Byz. Walls 6116 and 10111 which were revealed after removal of earlier floors in room north of courtyard. Soil was light reddish brown. The east side of the fill has 70% inclusions of mostly large angular spherical boulders and some ceramics including pithos and amphorae sherds. As we excavated from east to west there were fewer inclusions and the boulders became smaller. About 2.6m west of the corner of walls 6116 and 10111 a change in wall 10111 was noticed. Wall 10111 from intersection with 6116 west 2.6 meters was made of cut stone. At the the 2.6m point the building material changes to rubble. It has now been determined to give this 2.6m section of wall a new structure number (6526) in case it turns out that 6526 is not contiguous with 10111 as originally thought. There has also been a small amount of marble spolia in the inclusions. At the west end of (new) wall 6526 the final stones in the structure (before the rubble material begins) have a cutting in them that looks like a cutting for a ceiling beam, but these stones could be reused door threshold stones. There is no corresponding cutting on opposite wall (5463). The revealed surface consists of a packed soil ramp with its apex in the NE corner with its top being .1-.2m beneath top of intersection of 6116 and 6526 and sloping down to the west approx. .4-.5m to bottom of context. Context is much deeper in the West end. Top of Ramp is at 84.26m. A cutt has been revealed along N side of wall 5463 extending E-W across entire context.. It has now been determined that where wall 6526 ends on the west side - that is, where the wall was thought to change with respect to its building material, that indeed this was no longer wall structure at all but more of the same dumped fill that comprised the rest of 6516. Therefore this fill is now "L" shaped with the bottom of the "L" proceeding to the north. Another possible dumped fill has been revealed underneath the bottom (horizontal) of the "L" shape on north end of context. At this point it is not clear whether this is indeed a fill or if it is part of same floor as that under the rest of 6516. This north section (horizontal, bottom of "L" shape) of context 6516 is at a higher level than the rest of the revealed floor (approx. .1-.2m). It ssteps up where the wall 6526 was robbed out. 3.6.9 Amended by KG: It should be noted that context 6573, just E of wall 5463 between it and wall 6016, cuts context 6516 and is therefore earlier. This relationship was missed and 6516 was mistakenly excavated earlier than 6573. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. AfRS, 104. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. pithos, pithos. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. Byzantine, amphora. 1 handle. 4 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. amphora, amphora. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre-roman2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. concave thickened rim stewpot (800-950)1 rim. 1 handle. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), cup. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 handle. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 3 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 302 frag(s) 19.05 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 37 frag(s) 0.69 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | opus sectile lap lac 1 (saved to lot); iron strip - 1; .048m length; opus sectile roundel white 1 (saved to lot); marble sculptural fragment illegible 1; Bone- cranial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- Not in Table - 1 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 fragment(s). ; Bone- tarsometatarsus of Aves, sm (Bird - Small) - 1 example(s). | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | 10th 11th npd | |
| Grid: | 269.23-265.38E, 1035.63-1037.64N | |
| XMin: | 265.38 | |
| XMax: | 269.23 | |
| YMin: | 1035.63 | |
| YMax: | 1037.64 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 83.96-84.45m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Karl Goetze, Dan Leon (2009-05-25 to 2009-06-12) |