| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 752 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Black fill N and W of pit | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 752 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/04/30 | |
| Stratum: | sandy with clay inclusions, 50% carbon, cobbles (rounded spherical to tabular, angular), a few boulders (rounded, spherical) to fine pebbles, shell, ceramic, bone, iron nail | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the SE. The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is mixed- see description. | |
| Notes: | This darker soil was determined to be layered onto the redder material to the East and West after clearing the edges a bit, and is therefore being removed so as to better expose the red. There is much less tile here than there was closer to the scarp elsewhere. A pit was also dug into this context, which was removed previously as context. At a depth of 86.53 - 86.66, we ended this context, although it appears to continue, as the edges of the pit are very sharply defined at this point, and it appears very clearly to Panos in particular that this area is laid against the reddish fill to the East and the whiter, hard fill to the West. Panos also is very certain that this context, and the context under it (753) are the same. 24 May 2012: We now think this is one of several layers of fill (752, 753, 754, 756, and 758) that were cut by a Frankish pit (C847). Three layers of fill were excavated separately in the Frankish C847 pit: 691, 761, and 763. Because the E boundary of the cut for C847 coincided with an earlier cut for a much larger Byzantine pit (C784) while the W boundary did not, the Frankish pit C847 was not recognized in the layers beneath 691 until 758, when the Byzantine pit began to bottom out. Portions of 752, 753, 754, 756, and 758 represent the Byzantine pit fills, but all have been contaminated by the Frankish pottery from the fill of C847 which was dug together with them. This interpretation is supported by photos taken during excavation, where the outline of C847 is clearly visible (see 2012-0215, 2012-0216, 2012-0219, and 2012-223), as well as by a join found between the lotted pottery from pit fill 691 from session 1 (lot 2012-12) and our context 756 (lot 2012-34). There may have been more joins present originally, but since the rest of the pottery from 691 has already been thrown, we are unable to pursue this hypothesis further. - RM/JM 25 May 2012: 752 seems to have been overlaid by session 1 contexts 689, 699, and 700. In further support of our theory that 752, 753, 754, 756, and 758 have been contaminated by material from Frankish pit C847, the pottey from 689, 699, and 700 is all either 12th (689 and 699) or 11th (700) century. While these pottery dates cannot be used as a firm terminus ante quem for the fills originally below them in pit C784, they do support our relative chronology for the area. - RM | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. glaze painted I, slipped (1110-1130)4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 2 rims. 2 bodysherds. 2 sherds are suspiciously late; Plainware. bowl. 1 rim. as Hesperia 1987; Plainware. trefoil mouth, pitcher. 3 rims. 5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), pitcher. 1 handle. ; Fineware. late painted sgraffito, bowl. 1 bodysherd. no overglaze; Fineware. glaze painted I, slipped (1110-1130), bowl. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 13 frag(s) 0.12 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 78 frag(s) 4 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 31 frag(s) 0.35 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | handstone, 1; marble, white, architectural revetment, 2; iron, nail, head, 1; glass, clear, colorless, very thick, narrows along straight edge with notches cut close together | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | possibly later (suspicious sherds) | |
| Grid: | 268.81-266.53E, 1011.67-1014.05N | |
| XMin: | 266.53 | |
| XMax: | 268.81 | |
| YMin: | 1011.67 | |
| YMax: | 1014.05 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.82m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Jonida Martini, and Rachel McCleery (2012-04-30 to 2012-05-19) Coin: 2012 58 |