| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6761 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Robbing trench | |
| Title: | Fill in Robbing Trench | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1104 | |
| Context: | 6761 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2010/04/17 | |
| Stratum: | 50% inclusions: tile, pottery, bone, stone (medium pebbles-cobbles; angular; spherical-tabular) | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty clay. | |
| Notes: | Context 6762 is a dumped fill in the northeast corner of the room west of the courtyard of the Byzantine house. It was revealed by the removal of 6758 and is distinct from that fill for having darker soil. Fill 6761 continues beneath wall 6375 and wall 5725 indicating it is present in several rooms. The soil is dark greyish brown silty clay and contains at least 50% inclusions (stone, tile, pottery). As digging continued it became apparent that context 6761 was fill in a round pit partly contained in the room west of the courtyard. In the room only the west side of the cut is clearly defined. We also came to the decision to begin sieving once we realized the feature was a pit. It will hopefully provide important dating evidence for what was happening at this time. Excavation of context 6761 continued on 19/4/10. When the excavation of this pit reached its bottom, it apeared to be at sterile soil. The eastern scarp of pit 6761 reveals that it was not necessarily of homogenous depth. It would have been much deeper to the north and tapered to a shallower depth to the south. Additional notes: SG 22/4/10 Further excavation came to suggest that fill 6761 was part of a robbing trench for a N-S wall. There was a lower fill (6808) beneath 6761 and its removal revealed several large blocks sitting beneath structure 6738. See the entury for 6808 for more details. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. Basin1 rim. ; Coarseware. Niederbieder 771 rim. 3 handles. 6 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Palestinian amphora6 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. cooking pot (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Late Roman Amphora 21 handle. ; Coarseware. Palestinian amphora1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. Cooking pot with tall flaring rim (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Gaza amphora1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. Pan1 rim. ; Cooking ware. Orlo bifido, lid. 1 rim. ; Fineware. Candarli form 21 rim. ; Fineware. Preroman13 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. Mica-dusted cooking ware1 handle. ; Cooking ware. Pompeian Red Ware, frying pan. ; Coarseware. Palestinian amphora3 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. Cooking pot with horizontal thickened rim3 rims. ; Coarseware. Late Roman amphora 21 rim. 1 handle. 4 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Jar with outturned rim1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Basin; Cooking ware. Cooking pot; Fineware. Early Roman3 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 8 frag(s) 0.12 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 769 frag(s) 27.73 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 223 frag(s) 4.9 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Pithos, rim 1; Iron, key 1. ward broken, thin rectangular shaft, immovable ring handle with small hole; preserved L. 0.046m (saved to lot); Iron, nail 5, lump 1,; Bone, needle/pin/stylus 1 (broken at both end); Glass, clear, white, BS 3; Bronze, lump 2; Bone- distal humerus of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- head femur of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- horncore of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- innominate of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 9 example(s).; Bone- phalanx of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, lg (Mammal - Large) - 1 example(s). | |
| Period: | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | |
| Chronology: | Middle Byzantine NPD (9th/10th) | |
| Grid: | 264.69-264.03E, 1032.87-1034.85N | |
| XMin: | 264.03 | |
| XMax: | 264.69 | |
| YMin: | 1032.87 | |
| YMax: | 1034.85 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 82.74-83.43m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2010 by Scott Gallimore (2010-04-07 to 2010-04-23) Image: digital 2010 1035 Image: digital 2010 1036 |
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