| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6752 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Dumped Fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1104 | |
| Context: | 6752 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2010/04/15 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2010-029 | |
| Stratum: | 70% inclusions: tile, bone, pottery, roots, stone (coarse pebbles-boulders; subrounded-angular; spherical-tabular) | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silty clay. | |
| Notes: | Context 6752 is a large dumped fill of tile and stone along the northern half of the room west of the courtyard of the Byzantine house. It is truncated to the south by robbing trench cut 6720 and in the north by pit 6583 (cut 6655). Context 6752 continues beneath wall 5725 and should also be present in the room northwest of the courtyard. The fill contains approximately 70% inclusions most of which are large stones and tile fragments. The soil is dark yellowish brown silty clay with stone, tile, bone, and root inclusions. The removal of context 6752 revealed more of a hard reddish surface which was first identified at the bottom of pit 6583. This surface may represent slumped mudbrick. If context 6752 is a large dumped fill it may have been deposited after the abandonment of the structure associated with wall 6738. Context 6752 it abuts directly against the north face of wall 6438. Abutting up against wall 5724 a fragmentary marble head from a small statue (E. 261.41; N. 1032.85; H. 83.25). A coin, 2010-030, also turned up, followed by a second the morning of 16/04/10. Excavation of this context continued into the morning of 16/04/10. In the northeast part of the room a mound of tile and stone-laden fill was decided to be part of a separate dumping episode since the soil is much redder than context 6752. In the southeast corner the removal of 6752 did not produce evidence of more large stones associated with structure 6738. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. LRC form 10C1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Cooking pot1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. AfRS form 1041 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. Micaceous cooking fabric1 handle. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Early Roman3 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Late Roman amphora 21 bodysherd. ; Fineware. Preroman5 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. Handmade combed beaker1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. 7th century cooking pot1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Egyptian amphora1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 9 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (22% saved) fineware. | |
| 57 frag(s) 0.96 kg. (5% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 244 frag(s) 8.82 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | stopper cut down from tile 1; Stone, red limestone, head from sculpture 1; Lamp, attic post-glazing, handle 1; marble, revetement 2; lead, lump 1; marble, stopper 2; iron, lump 1 | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Middle Byzantine NPD (9th/10th century) | |
| Grid: | 264.65-261.09E, 1032.22-1034.61N | |
| XMin: | 261.09 | |
| XMax: | 264.65 | |
| YMin: | 1032.22 | |
| YMax: | 1034.61 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 83.31-83.59m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2010 by Scott Gallimore (2010-04-07 to 2010-04-23) Object: S 2010 1 Coin: 2010 30 Coin: 2010 31 |
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