Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 125
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 125
Area:   Nezi Field
Title:   Leveling fill under earliest clay floor associated
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1100
Context:   125
Page:   0
Date:   2007/05/15
Lot:   Lot 2007-039
Stratum:   Inclusions 20-30%: pottery, very few thin roots, stones (small cobbles, coarse pebbles, medium pebbles).
Description:   Top slope of the context is slight down to the SW. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the SWThe soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand.
Notes:   [Recorded in the field with Kris Lorenzo].
Patch of reddish soil to the north of the oven/furnace (aka orange clay feature). Directly under clay surface B122. Since this is a discreet patch of reddish soil, while other soil around B125 is different in color, maybe it represent dumping/levelling before the laying of the floor.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 rim. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. undecorated, stamnos. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. pre-Medieval9 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww cut (700-1120), mug. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, stamnos. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. sgraffito II, slipped painted (1200-1260)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260)2 rims. 3 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww cut (700-1120), cup. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .
Pottery Summary:   30 frag(s) 0.19 kg. (100% saved) fineware.
    138 frag(s) 1 kg. (100% saved) coarseware.
    44 frag(s) 0.23 kg. (100% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   iron lump 7 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish restored Diam. 0.04 (similar to Hasden no. 384) base 1 (saved to lot); bone ovis molar 1 (saved to lot); bone unid 13 (saved to lot); glass clear brownish bs 1 clear greenish bs 3 clear bluish bs 2 opaque brownish bs 2 (saved to lot); glass clear greenish convex bottom base 1 (saved to lot); lamp Frankish rim 1 (saved to lot); bronze strip folded over L 0.028 1 (saved to lot); shell lima 1 (saved to lot); marble chancel screen 1 (saved to lot)
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   mid-13th CE
Grid:   268.84-267.54E, 1003.9-1004.95N
XMin:   267.54
XMax:   268.84
YMin:   1003.9
YMax:   1004.95
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   87.35-87.47m.
Is Above:   129
Is Below:   122
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-05-18)