Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 138
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 138
Area:   Nezi Field
Title:   General fill
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1100
Context:   138
Page:   0
Date:   2007/05/17
Stratum:   Inclusions 15-20%: bone, pottery, tile, few thin roots, stones (coarse pebbles, medium pebbles), shell.
Description:   Top slope of the context is uneven. Bottom slope of the context is uneven down to the The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   This basket has fewer rocks and is darker in color than the basket excavated in this immediate area previously, B134.
The bottom of this basket has revealed more of the wall that runs N-S from ca.1007N, and forms a corner with the E-W wall projecting into pit cut = B71.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. ; Fineware. imitation maiolica, bowl. 1 handle. ; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 2 rims. 1 bodysherd.
Pottery Summary:   16 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    76 frag(s) 0.88 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    28 frag(s) 0.22 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   bone unid 31; iron nail square shaft incomplete 1; glass clear greenish with applied thread BS 1; glass clear bluish handle 1; ivory fragment of pipe? burnt L. 0.01 1; glass clear purplish irrdescent BS 5; glass clear light greenish BS 1; bone patella 1; glass clear bluish rim 1
Period:   Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:   late 13th century
Grid:   270.8-268.7E, 1002-1005.58N
XMin:   268.7
XMax:   270.8
YMin:   1002
YMax:   1005.58
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   87.23-87.31m.
Is Above:   145
Is Below:   129
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-05-18)
Image: digital 2007 0425
Image: digital 2007 0426