| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 996 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Reddish soil NE of wall 366 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 996 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/04/04 | |
| Stratum: | Stones (pebbles), ceramics, tile, bone, painted plaster, glass | |
| Description: | The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | We begin excavating 996 upon completion of 978. GDRS considers that we should remove the deposit of pale, compact sediment (that protruded through 978) prior to excavating the harder, redder sediment exposed to the E of it. This necessitates removing 996, which appears to partially overlay the pale compact sediment. At the S extent, the excavation of 996 uncovers a worked block in line with wall 366. Panos came upon 4 fragments of an antefix ca. 1m north of wall 366 and E of cut 926. in the same area was found a piece of bone worked into a "mushroom" shape. The underlying deposit being exposed at N and S has a noticeable amount of tile fragments (20%?) The SE extent of the context reveals a lip of the more compact, paler sediment as that along the E extent (DD; this is disputed by Panos; will dig with following) A roughly rectangular area along the S; below 996 is darker sediment and with a greater concentration of ceramics. We will proceed with the excavation of the more compact, paler sediment (998). | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. Preroman16 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. lid. 1 handle. ; Cooking ware. Stewpot with vertical collar rim, stewpot. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. Niederbieber 77, Niederbieber 77 (MR Amph. 7). 3 handles. 6 bodysherds. ; Fineware. Faience unidentified1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 15 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 101 frag(s) 3.7 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 96 frag(s) 0.9 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | worked bone,; shell, 1; glass, clear, brownish, bs, 1; Terracotta, antefix, part of lower pair of outcurving tendril spirals, upper pair of incurving tendrils, base of palmette, pale buff clay (saved to lot); glass clear colorless, base 1. Flask. Early-Mid Roman. W. 0.049, H. 0.011, Diam. Of base 0.043. Round, flat base. Plain curve into body. No visible pontil mark. | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 5th - mid 6th c. npd | |
| Grid: | 265.6-263.11E, 1006.37-1009.16N | |
| XMin: | 263.11 | |
| XMax: | 265.6 | |
| YMin: | 1006.37 | |
| YMax: | 1009.16 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.19-86.32m. |