Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 5031
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 5031
Area:   Nezi Field
Title:   fill of pit?
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1100
Context:   5031
Page:   0
Date:   2007/05/08
Stratum:   Very soft, reddish brown sandy silt with 30% inclusions. Inclusions: broken tiles, bones, sherds, small stones.
Description:   Top slope of the context is slight down to the S. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the SThe soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   We are separating this area ("B" on plan B 5027) into two baskets, because the N section is softer than the S section.
This is the N section, which goes up to the N wall of Room F.

This is the soil noted as "hard, whitish," in B 5027. The soil itself is very soft and reddish brown, but is overlaid by a thin hard white layer which dried in this way in the sun.
Context Pottery:   Cooking ware. as Hesperia 94 No. 491 rim. ; Cooking ware. as Hesperia 94 No. 462 rims. ; Coarseware. nied772 handles. 3 bodysherds.
Pottery Summary:   22 frag(s) 1.05 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    11 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   bone unid 3; tile Hellenistic 1; shell murex brandeis 1
Period:   Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD)
Chronology:   late 3rd to 4th c.
Grid:   269.9-269.2E, 1019.32-1019.92N
XMin:   269.2
XMax:   269.9
YMin:   1019.32
YMax:   1019.92
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   85.47-85.84m.
Is Above:   5034
Is Below:   5027
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Heidi Broome-Raines (2007-04-30 to 2007-05-18)
Report: Nezi Field 2007 by J. Matthew Harrington and Theodora Kopestonsky (2007-05-21 to 2007-06-08)