| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 497 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Robbing trench | |
| Title: | cut for robbing trench | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1103 | |
| Context: | 497 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2009/04/30 | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The context shape in plan is irregular - L-shaped. The top break of the cut is sharp. The sides of the cut are vertical. The break at the base of the cut is sharp. The base of the cut is flat. | |
| Notes: | Cut 497 is the cut for the robbing act of blocks from the northern extent of wall 306 and western extent of wall 366 including the corner where these walls are imagined to have once met. Because of the consintant soil of the fill, it is imagined that both walls were robbed out at the same time creating two linear trenches that form a single L-shape. In the process of delineating the various edges of the cut, differences were noted in the deposits into which the cut was made: The eastern wall of the trench for the robbing of wall 306 is barely wider that the preserved width of the wall. Because wall 306 was visible at the time of the robbing event, it is possible that the eastern wall of the cut also represents the foundation trench for the wall 306. The western wall of the trench, however, bows out towards the north, indicating perhaps that the blocks were pried or levered from the west, or that further digging was necessary on the western side to recover the blocks. It seems unlikely that the western wall of the trench for wall 306 can represent both the robbing and foundation cut for the wall. The trench for the eastern section of wall 306, namely wall 366 was very difficult to identify. The deposit into which the cut for the robbing trench for wall 366 was made is counter intuitively softer in texture or into compaction than the fill of the trench; this created difficulties. Also, towards the south, the compaction of the fill of the trench and abutting deposit into which it was cut are virtually identical with only a very slight color variation to guide the pickman Kostas. At lower elevations, however, the line of the cut was more readily discerned and confirmation of the robbing of wall 366 was conferred by the uncovering of additional unrobbed blocks of wall 366 in situ at the bottom of the trench. The bottom of the trench also preserves the imprint of one removed block in a reddish matrix that may be bedrock. The bottom of the trench also consists of a dark soil toward the south, reddish soil (perhaps melted mudbrick) and the fill of a pit cut through these deposits. | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 13th c. | |
| Grid: | 259.9-257.1E, 1005-1007N | |
| XMin: | 257.1 | |
| XMax: | 259.9 | |
| YMin: | 1005 | |
| YMax: | 1007 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.3-86.89m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2009 by Stella Diakou and Jody Cundy (2009-05-19 to 2009-05-20) |