| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 1067 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Layer Between Walls 945 and 918 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1107 | |
| Context: | 1067 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2013/04/16 | |
| Stratum: | Stones (pebbles, cobbles), tile, ceramics, glass, painted plaster, carbon, iron | |
| Description: | The soil color is light greyish brown. The soil compaction is hard. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | We begin excavating 1067 after completing 1064, and after discussion of its priority vis-à-vis the deposit with pebbles and cement to its E. We cautiously agree to begin with 1067 to the W; it seems to partially overlie the pebbly deposit. Panos finds coin 2013-80 in situ. Removal of 1067 exposes more horizontally-bedded tile and stone, the same already partially exposed by 1064; in a N-S line from 1064. Is this a bit of wall? We'll have to see, but the sediment on either side of the putative wall is different: hard red to the E, something else to the W. At the NE, where the context was cut by Pit 1032, a large stone is exposed, oriented slightly more to the NE than the surrounding walls, and seeming to point toward the possible channel crossing below Wall 992 and into 1050. This stone is also situated at the point where 1067 meets the pebbly deposit with concrete to the E, suggesting there may be some relationship between the two. Moving W, to the N of Pit 845, Panos identifies a surface below 1067: the same as that we identified N of Wall 918, 1056. Coin 2013-81 found in sieve. The deposit continues down around the N-S stretch of horizontal tile, to its E and W, exposing a hard surface below, but one different than that to the NW [equivalent to 1056]. There does seem to be a cut filled with looser red sediment in line with the proposed channel, E of the tiles. We will dig the tiles next, as context 1074. The excavation of 1074 makes clear that the tiles are NOT a wall or any sort of structure. | |
| Context Pottery: | Coarseware. Late Roman Amphora 2, LR Amph. 2. 1 handle. ; Fineware. ER9 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. as Hesperia 1999, #18; Fineware. Rom- AfRS, hemispherical bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .Slip/surface treatment is probably late; Fineware. Preroman33 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. stewpot. 1 rim. similar to Hesperia 2005 3-31; Fineware. Rom- LRC, Unidentified. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 43 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 191 frag(s) 3.55 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 142 frag(s) 1.12 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Iron, nail, square shank, Th. 0.006, 2; Th. 0.011, 1; nail head, 1; slag 1; glass clear unk color, bs 5; glass slag 1; Tessera, black stone, 1; glass clear turquoise blue, rim or foot folded 1, bs 1; Lamp, post-glazing Attic, shoulder, 1, discus, 1; glass clear green, window 1 quite large (L. 0.08); glass clear yellowish green, inward thickened rim 1, folded round handle 1, L. 0.012; glass clear green, inlay or vessel bs 2, light blue, inlay or vessel bs 2; Bronze, unidentified, 1; Painted plaster, white with red stripe, 1; glass clear unk color, folded round handle 1, L. 0.018, like MF 68 152; glass clear greyish green, bs with trail decoration 4, plain bs 11 | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 2nd 1/2 6th c. | |
| Grid: | 264.95-261.97E, 1011.64-1014.47N | |
| XMin: | 261.97 | |
| XMax: | 264.95 | |
| YMin: | 1011.64 | |
| YMax: | 1014.47 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.83-86.13m. | |
| References: | Coin: 2013 80 Coin: 2013 81 |
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