| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5489 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Fill of ash exposed from 1960s excavations | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5489 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/15 | |
| Stratum: | 5%: charcoal (0.01-0.03 m; ash); angular pebbles; pottery (0.01-0.04 m) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is moderate down to the S. The soil color is light greyish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | This ashy lens was revealed during cleaning context 5489. A.C. noted that it had actually been visible a week and a half ago, however. Prior to excavation, it was not clear whether we had a deposit or a fill for a pit, because the top edges of the ash were blurred and it was dificult to see how it related to the matrix in which it lay. Excavation revealed that the ash had been bordering a hard, white layer to the E (edges unclear to determine relationship), but the surface exposed beneath 5489 was softer and more a reddish brown color (later excavated as context 5513). To the W, the border between the white surface and the ashy lens was made clear by excavation- the white layer appears to overlie the ash. We will close the context as it currently stands, and move on to a layer of debris below the former location of the Wall 5478 and subfill of the wall (context 5481). This new layer of debris appears to cut the white layer discovered overlying the ashy lens to the W (white layer later given the name 5499) and should be the next latest context. Additional note from 23.05.08: As our final interpretation of this context, the ashy fill was judged to have once lain beneath the white plastery surface, but was not visibly underlying it at the time of excavation because the white surface was fugitive in that area. This was the reason that this context was taken out of sequence. Additional note from the end of the day, 15.05.08: The layer mentioned in the note above (context 5491) does fill a cut into context 5499 (the hard, white layer described above), but its border with the E-neighboring edge of the pit cut 5498 is diffuse. In other words, it is no longer thought to be the case that it both overlies and runs beneath the white layer 5499. See contexts 5491 and 5498 for more information about the limits of context 5499. Additional note from the end of the day, 14.05.08, VOID AND DISREGARDED AS OF 23.05.08: There is a comparable situation of ash overlying a white layer to the E and cutting beneath a hard, white layer to the W in the case of context 5491. It ay be reflective of a single dumping event wher multiple layers of different debris were dumped together at one time. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. sgraffito I, slipped painted (1160-1180)1 rim. 4 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300)1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. premedieval2 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 9 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 16 frag(s) 0.08 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 17 frag(s) 0.09 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Iron, nail, square shanks, (h: 5 cm and 4.2 cm), 2 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | mid 13th century | |
| Grid: | 263.5-263.2E, 1036.9-1037.5N | |
| XMin: | 263.2 | |
| XMax: | 263.5 | |
| YMin: | 1036.9 | |
| YMax: | 1037.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 85.16-85.25m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) |