| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 773 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Removal of 539 and 538 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 773 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/05/07 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2012-035 | |
| Stratum: | 70%, big boulders, tile, pottery, bone, glass, iron. The boulders are mostly angular, some tabular, and some platy. One of the biggest ones measured ca. 0.50 cm long; few roots | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is moderate down to the W. The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is well sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | Excavation started with the removal of wall 538 and 539, which to Larkin, me and Heather, seems to be one structure (need to check the excavator notes to understand why 2 context numbers were given to this apsidal structure). The rubbish removed as 773 consisted of ca. 3 courses of medium to big boulders, and some smaller ones in the space between them. The larger boulders tended to be located in the eastern half of the context, with smaller, more rounded cobbles located in the western half and at a lower elevation, leading to the appearance that this structure was a wall, with foundation courses visible to the west. However, after excavation the smaller, rounded cobbles were found to be mixed in with the larger boulders, not laid underneath them in formal courses. This could indicate that this ring is more of a stone pile than a wall. On the western part of 539, two platy boulders were uncovered, and according to Panos, they probably belong to the E-W dromos (741) to the north of the structure 538/539. A considerable amount of pottery and bone was recovered from the removal of structure 538/539, as the stones were not tightly spaced in formal courses. An iron object was found, perhaps an iron spoon? 25 May 2012: 538 and 539 were distinguished by the original excavators as two different phases in the wall, perhaps due to 5 blocks at a higher elevation in 538 that could be more convincingly interpreted as a wall than the remainder of the structure. After group discussion, we have equated their removal in this context with 801 for purposes of the Harris matrix, since both represent either the remnants of foundations or piles of rubble fallen or laid on the series of fills in the southwest corner of our area. Photographs of the apse may be seen in 2012-42, 2012-64 through 2012-67. I have been unable to trace photographs of 773 (or 778/779 beneath it). - RM | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100)1 handle. 2 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .pithos; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), thymiaterion. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .unidentified; Fineware. 13 bodysherds. premedieval; Fineware. ww painted (700-1120), plate. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), mug. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .luster | |
| Pottery Summary: | 24 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (46% saved) fineware. | |
| 733 frag(s) 11.1 kg. (1% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 152 frag(s) 1.75 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron, possible large headed nail or lump, 1; marble, white, 3; glass, clear, green, bs, 2; iron, nail, with head, 1, without head, 1; iron, possible broken and bent key with flattened immovable ring end with very small hole, see MF 6307 though shaft not as thick and round, 1 | |
| Period: | No precise date (NPD) | |
| Chronology: | 11th c.? | |
| Grid: | 269.5-266.09E, 1008-1009.54N | |
| XMin: | 266.09 | |
| XMax: | 269.5 | |
| YMin: | 1008 | |
| YMax: | 1009.54 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.49-87.36m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Jonida Martini, and Rachel McCleery (2012-04-30 to 2012-05-19) |