| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 753 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Black fill under pit | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 753 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/04/30 | |
| Stratum: | 40% carbon, shell, bone, tile, ceramic, marble, fine pebbles (spherical, rounded) to tabular, angular pebbles | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Although Panos in particular thinks 752 continues down below pit 691's bottom, and into this area, we are opening a new context as the western edge is now better defined. These two contexts (752 and 753) will probably be combined later, though we will wait until the pottery reading to make the final determination of whether they are indeed the same context. There is a high concentration of shell in this context, lending further support to the idea that this context is the same as 752, and the context contained in pit 691, as this same concentration was noted in the pit fill. This context was therefore sampled for flotation to determine any relationship between the pit fill (691) and this fill (753), as a flotation sample was also taken from the pit. 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 | |
| Context Pottery: | Plainware. stamnos. 1 handle. 1 bodysherd. frankish matte painted; Plainware. gunsenin1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 rim. outwardly folded; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 rim. frankish; Fineware. prefrankish3 bodysherds. ; Plainware. pitcher. 1 handle. 1 bodysherd. frankish matte painted | |
| Pottery Summary: | 4 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 36 frag(s) 0.73 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 12 frag(s) 0.16 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 3/4 13th c. | |
| Grid: | 268.5-267.03E, 1011.96-1013.95N | |
| XMin: | 267.03 | |
| XMax: | 268.5 | |
| YMin: | 1011.96 | |
| YMax: | 1013.95 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.45-86.66m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Jonida Martini, and Rachel McCleery (2012-04-30 to 2012-05-19) |