Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 5087
Collection:   Corinth
Type:   Basket
Name:   Nezi Field, context 5087
Area:   Nezi Field
Title:   Pit fill, second layer from the top
Category:   Deposit
Notebook:   1100
Context:   5087
Page:   0
Date:   2007/05/21
Stratum:   dark yellowish brown soil with 10% inclusions including charcoal (<0.05), tile, pebbles, and large clay chunks
Description:   Top slope of the context is moderate down to the SE. Bottom slope of the context is moderate down to the SEThe soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:   This basket is removing fill from a probable bothros. One distinct black rectangular curved piece of soil was mixed in with the fill. The bothros seems to be decreasing in size as we go down. Two different soils appear below this a whitish and a reddish, We closed the basket and will dig the latest the whitish one.
Context Pottery:   Fineware. Pre-Roman5 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. interior glazed, basin. 1 rim. ; Cooking ware. stewpot as c-82-41 rim. ; Fineware. esa, cup.
Pottery Summary:   6 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
    35 frag(s) 0.81 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
    19 frag(s) 0.09 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:   bronze waster 1; iron nail, head 1, shank 3; lamp type 22, base 1; glass clear blue bs 4; bone cuttlefish 2; iron lump 6; iron nail square shank, nail head 1; lamp Hellenistic shoulder 1; bone unid 3; bronze lump 13; glass clear blue rim as Hayes no. 145, form similar to Jalame no. 77 rim 1; wall plaster, painted black and yellow 1, black and white 1, white black and red 1; charcoal 3
Period:   Middle Roman (2/2 2nd c-4th c AD)
Chronology:   3rd to 4th
Grid:   286.4-267E, 1020.4-1021.7N
XMin:   267
XMax:   286.4
YMin:   1020.4
YMax:   1021.7
Site:   Corinth
City:   Ancient Corinth
Country:   Greece
Masl:   85.1-85.24m.
Is Above:   5088
Is Below:   5085
References:   Report: Nezi Field 2007 by J. Matthew Harrington and Theodora Kopestonsky (2007-05-21 to 2007-06-08)
Image: digital 2007 0433