| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 656 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | dark poorly mixed deposit NE pit 193 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 656 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/04/05 | |
| Stratum: | inclusions: stone, tiles | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Circular deposit but does not appear to be a pit unless it is the bottom of the pit. Completely overlain by 655, however, so perhaps the pit-bottom theory is unlikely. Conner: Deposit 656 was a very small, mostly circular deposit around 0.5 m in diameter. After our removal of 655, the various layers north of 420 became more clear, and 656 overlaid 667 and 675, but looked initially like a pit, which would have, of course, been quite interesting. We directed our valient pick-operators to explore, but they found the bottom of the depression only about 0.1 m down. The depression sloped downwards towards the center, resembling a very tiny crater. Barring a very localized assault by miniature space debris, our best guess for 656 might be connected to the purpose of 655, perhaps leveling. The join of 667 and 675 may have had a certain dip that the creator of 655 preferred to fill in during preparation work for the spreading of 655. This context, however, has been dated to the early modern period, which seems unlikely based on stratigraphy. As this definitely predates the creation of wall 420--it is entirely under 655 and 655 was cut by wall 420--an early modern date on this context would push wall 420 from the Ottoman period into the mid-19th century and cause a subsequent reinterpretation of a related contexts, especially pit 430. In any case, we will attempt to have the pottery re-read before it is discarded, though the small sample size involved requires a good deal of caution in any case. This pit was clearly separate from the contexts below it. Oswald: This dark circular deposit was found underneath 655 and cuts into 667 and 675, although only to a depth of 12 cm. Its delicate embrace of its underlying contexts 667 and 675 breaks the otherwise sharply defined edge between these two underlying contexts. It seems likely then that 656 is a deposit nestled into a shallow cut into 667 and 675, thus post dating the both of them and pre-dating 655. The early modern date assigned to context 656, therefore, should also be assigned to 655. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. maiolica, pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), jar. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 3 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 24 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| Period: | Venetian (1680-1715 AD) | |
| Grid: | 273.57-272.57E, 1012.14-1012.74N | |
| XMin: | 272.57 | |
| XMax: | 273.57 | |
| YMin: | 1012.14 | |
| YMax: | 1012.74 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.87-86.95m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Andrew Connor and Simon Oswald (2012-04-03 to 2012-04-20) |