| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 724 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Removal of Black, Clay, and Tile Layer | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 724 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/04/17 | |
| Stratum: | Pottery, Bones, tiles, iron, fine and course pebbles ~10 cm, cobbles ~30 cm, 50% tiles, 10-20 % pottery, glass, painted wall plaster, shell, coin, carbon | |
| Description: | The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | This is the further removal of a clay and tile layer that lies above a red clay. We sifted 50% of the context (21 buckets at end of 17 April 2012). A coin was found in the sieve (#43). There was an irregular marble chunk, one smooth surface, approx. 4 cm X 2cm. High concentration of tile noted in the eastern section of context, near pier 573. At end of 17 April 2012, we were on a 2nd bucket of pottery and had sifted 21 buckets. 19 April 2012: At the end of context we had 3 buckets of pottery. The rain on 18 April 2012 clarified soil color changes and led us to excavate 727 next - a red patch laid on 724 along C 272. 724 is clearly bordered to NE by patch of harder soil to W of pier 573 - 724 is laid on this harder soil and cuts away from it cleanly. Border to W along C 272 was unclear due to context 727 which lay above it. Border to S was defined by context 697 and a patch of boulders N of the well, while the E edge was at the W border of context 672. 3 pieces bone (ovocaprid?), one large shell (gaederopus?) washed with pottery. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), kettle. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. early corinthian product; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)7 rims. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), bowl. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. pre medieval28 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. inwardly sloping1 rim. (saved to lot) .waster; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 rim. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 3 rims. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ww stamped, bowl. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 41 frag(s) 0.35 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 754 frag(s) 20.42 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 251 frag(s) 2.97 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | marble, revetment fragment, purplish; painted wall plaster, white, 1; iron, nail head, 3; glass, clear, colorless, bs, 1; plaster, 1; glass, clear, blueish tinge, rim, 2; painted wall plaster, yellow, 1; glass, clear, green, bs, 2; glass, clear, yellow tinge, bs, 1; glass, clear, blueish tinge, bs, 3; iron, nail, round, 4; iron, nail, square, 2; glass, clear, colorless, greenish tinge with purple streaks, combed, strap handle, 1; mosaic tessera, black, 1; painted wall plaster, red w/blue on top, 1; iron slag, 5; glass, clear, greenish tinge, rim 1; glass, clear, colorless, added gold line, bs, 1; painted wall plaster, red, 2 | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | late 11th/early 12th | |
| Grid: | 260-255.5E, 1008.9-1012.2N | |
| XMin: | 255.5 | |
| XMax: | 260 | |
| YMin: | 1008.9 | |
| YMax: | 1012.2 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.58-86.85m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Rachel McCleery/Sarah Miller (2012-04-03 to 2012-04-20) Coin: 2012 43 |