| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6656 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Floor | |
| Title: | Pebble Floor | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1104 | |
| Context: | 6656 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2010/04/13 | |
| Stratum: | 70% inclusions: tile, pottery, stone (mostly rounded-subrounded, spherical small pebbles; a few coarse pebbles) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the E. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | N.B. Context number 6656 was skipped in 2009. For constistency it is being used during the 2010 season. Context 6656 is a pebble floor surface located in the central part of the room west of the courtyard of the Byzantine house. It is truncated in the north by pit 6583 (cut 6655) and in the south by pit 5943 (cut 6326). The floor consists mainly of small, rounded-subrounded, spherical, medium pebbles. It would have covered the room but has been disturbed in several places. The soil is dark reddish brown clayey silt with 70% inclusions (tile, pottery, stone). Much of the inclusions were well sorted, although there are some large pieces. The removal of context 6656 revealed a surface, possibly a fill, which had already been partly revealed to the south by the removal of context 6528. Floor 6656 was relatively thick indicating it would have raised the level of this room quite substantially. However, as digging continued it began to appear that floor 6656 did not occupy the northern part of the room. While 6656 clearly overlays a stone and tile fill in the northern part of the room, it is only a thin covering and the fill appears to have a similar top elevation to the floor. While context 6656 did not produce any bone, it did produce several large shell fragments. In the western part of the context a layer of black soil was revealed. We also came down on some large boulders sitting atop the revealed road surface in pit 5943. It also appears now that this deposit had an associated cut (context 6708). This surface (6656) cut into a fill (now labeled context 6710). Both 6656 and 6710 appear to lie above a robbing trench for a feature identified in pit 5943. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. Thin-walled beaker; Fineware. Arretine plate; Fineware. LRC bowl1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. AfRS unidentified2 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. Lid2 rims. 1 handle. ; Coarseware. Niederbieder 774 handles. 3 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Bowl; Cooking ware. Cooking pot; Fineware. |ESB bowl1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Unidentified RS bowl2 rims. ; Cooking ware. Cooking pot; Fineware. Preroman10 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 23 frag(s) 0.18 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 247 frag(s) 7.45 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 50 frag(s) 0.66 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Bronze, strip 1, rectangular shaft 1; Lamp, type 27 1; Marble revetement 1; Bone- 6 of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone, stylus/pin/needle with circular shaft 1; Iron, spike 1; Terracotta, water pipe 1; Shell, Lima 1, gaurdaropus 1; iron, nail 2; Bone- of Aves, sm (Bird - Small) - 3 example(s).; Bone- of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 23 example(s).; Bone- cranial of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 6 example(s).; Bone- epihyal of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 4 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- humerus of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 6 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Aves, sm (Bird - Small) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Aves, sm (Bird - Small) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 22 example(s).; Bone- mandible w/teeth of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- mandible w/teeth of Mammalia, sm (Mammal - Small) - 1 example(s).; Bone- mandible w/teeth of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 example(s).; Bone- metacarpal of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Aves, md (Bird - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Mammalia, sm (Mammal - Small) - 2 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 3 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 17 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 2 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 12 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- spine of Teleostei (Fish - Bony) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tarsal, astragalus of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 4 example(s).; Bone- tooth of Equus sp (Horse, Ass Family) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tooth of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 10 example(s).; Bone- ulna of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 25 example(s). | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 11th century | |
| Grid: | 264.6-261.94E, 1032.34-1033.86N | |
| XMin: | 261.94 | |
| XMax: | 264.6 | |
| YMin: | 1032.34 | |
| YMax: | 1033.86 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 83.76-84.02m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2010 by Scott Gallimore (2010-04-07 to 2010-04-23) |