| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 207 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | robbing trench fill for N-S wall at 269E | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 207 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/06/05 | |
| Stratum: | inclusions 15% : pottery sherds, few bones, roots, pebbles, 1 tessera, tile fragments, cobbles and boulders, 1 bag glass, carbon pieces, 1 coin | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. Bottom slope of the context is level. The soil color is very dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is moderately sorted. It is silty sand. | |
| Notes: | After we removed B205 immediately to the west of what we thought was the south part of the N-W at 269E, we realized that in this place the wall had been robbed. B207 is the robbing trench for the removal of N-S wall at 269E in this area. The robbing seems to be cutting the pit of B205, so we should have removed it before B205. The soil was soft very dark yellowish brown with few inclusions, among them a tessera. In the northern side of the basket we removed a large rectangular stone [L. = 0.40, W.= 0.33, H. = 0.15] because Cleomenis said it was floating. Deeper in the north part of the basket we revealed hard red soil with tiles that maybe relates to the preserved part of the N-S wall at 269E. We did not remove it. Some boulders were removed from the south side of the basket because red soil was underneath them and Cleomenis said that they were floating. In the western part of basket the cut with the red soil that is immediately to the west is clear. In the eastern part of the basket the limits are not very clear. In the southern part of the basket, south of the red soil with tiles that we revealed in the basket, the robbing trench seems to continue, so we removed the fill in the same basket. The soil here is a little harder and with more inclusions than in the rest of the basket (30% inclusions : many tile fragments, pottery sherds, few bones, few stones (cobbles and pebbles), roots). In the southern part of this area we revealed the foundation stones of the N-S wall at 269E. Nevertheless the dark brown soil of the basket continues deeper immediately to the North of these foundation stones. This soil seems to continue below the red soil with tiles in the north of the basket, that we interpreted as a continuation of the N-S wall at 269E, so we decided to close the basket at this point. We found coin 2007-458 {268.65 E / 1002.68 N / 86.97El} | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. glaze painted I, slipped (1110-1130), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. pre-medieval5 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ww cut (700-1120), cup. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. light on dark I, slip painted (1100-1125), bowl. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 16 frag(s) 0.12 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 212 frag(s) 3.52 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 18 frag(s) 0.24 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bone chicken femur 1; stone green tessera 1; enigma bomb 1; revetment lapis black 1; rosso antica 1; glass clear green bs 1; bone ovis tibia 1 metatarsus 1 astragalus 1 molar 1 horn core 1; bone sus maxilla 1 | |
| Period: | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | |
| Chronology: | early 12th | |
| Grid: | 269.01-268.53E, 1000.93-1003.29N | |
| XMin: | 268.53 | |
| XMax: | 269.01 | |
| YMin: | 1000.93 | |
| YMax: | 1003.29 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.87-87.19m. | |
| Is Above: | 215 | |
| Is Below: | 149 | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lina Kokkinou and Angela Ziskowski (2007-05-21 to 2007-06-09) Coin: 2007 458 |