| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 740 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Tile and Stones Immediately E of Western Baulk | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 740 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/04/20 | |
| Stratum: | pottery, tiles, cobbles ~30 cm, few bones, stone inclusions (40-50%), plaster? | |
| Description: | The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | This is the removal of a stone and tile layer immediately E of western baulk. There are mainly stones and fewer tiles in this context; which is what distinguished it from the preceding 734. It is in line with the E-W robbing trench discovered in 672 and further explored as 732, and was clearly laid on the W end of 732. During excavation, it became clear that 740 cut the softer soil w/ small cobbles to its S, and the reddish soil to its N. It also cuts 732, though it was laid on 732 in its upper level. Very little pottery was encountered throughout this context - ca. 1-2% at most, while cobbles and boulders were ~50% of the matrix or more. Found twisted iron object (nail or handle?) near W baulk. Plaster fragments also appeared here, near bottom of context by W baulk. There are fewer stones in the E part of this context at the lower level, and more tile fragments, as well as slightly more pottery. Context was closed when rocks removed. Athanasis thinks the remainder of the fill of this robbing trench may all be the same. For excavation of the remainder of the fill, see 744 (=732). 26 April 2012: When the 2009 excavators dug deposit 631 in this area, they recorded that its cut on the N side sloped up and to the N at a thirty degree angle. This roughly matches the slope of the cut for 740 on its S edge, at a lower level. 631, then, should represent the upper fill of an early modern E-W robbing trench, the N portion of 697 should represent an intermediate fill, and 740 should represent the bottom of the fill for this portion of the robbing trench.4 | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. canakkale, plate. 1 rim. ; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre frankish2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. combed | |
| Pottery Summary: | 5 frag(s) 0.08 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 150 frag(s) 7.16 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 36 frag(s) 0.62 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron, fragment, 1; iron, nail, square, 3 | |
| Period: | Early Modern (1831-1949 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 18th/early 19th | |
| Grid: | 257.42-255.5E, 1009.68-1011.08N | |
| XMin: | 255.5 | |
| XMax: | 257.42 | |
| YMin: | 1009.68 | |
| YMax: | 1011.08 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.11-86.58m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Rachel McCleery/Sarah Miller (2012-04-03 to 2012-04-20) |