Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 5505

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 5505
Area:		Nezi Field
Context Type:		Fill
Title:		Fill inside tile-built pithos
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1101
Context:		5505
Page:		0
Date:		2008/05/15
Stratum:		10% inclusions: tiles, pebbles, cobbles, small bits of charcoal
Description:		The soil color is light greyish brown. The soil compaction is weakly cemented. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		The brownish fill inside of the pithos was very hard and difficult to dig quickly. After many hours of digging, we exposed many courses of the pithos on the S side, reaching down approximately to the level of the bottom of the bothros fill 5496. However, this fill is very clean and has produced only a few scrappy pieces of pottery. Digging has become difficult the farther down we go, and exposure of the tile vaulting also makes the area a little unstable and dangerous. We have decided to stop and move to the deposits within the pithos cut again. At this point, the pithos is as follows: 1.20 m from the highest preserved course of tiles to the bottom (could be another m down!) 0.52 m back of exposed vaulting 1.53 is the diameter of the pithos, as currently excavated.
Context Pottery:		Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. basin. 1 rim. ; Fineware. premedieval30 bodysherds. ; Fineware. frit, plate. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), unidentified. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. amphora. 35 bodysherds. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), dish. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. pitcher. ; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270), stewpot. 1 rim.
Pottery Summary:		44 frag(s) 0.22 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		246 frag(s) 4.01 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		94 frag(s) 0.76 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		glass, clear, yellow bs 1; Glass, rim of bowl with infolded rim (as Jalame 88, p. 51), clear green, D. ?; chert 1; window glass, pale blue, clear, 5 bs; glass, clear, blue bs 1; Bronze, fragment 1; Glass, base as MF 7560b (Corinth XII, p. 111, no. 725, pl. 57, Fig. 12); stopper cut down from cooking pot 1; Bronze, catchpin ? 1; Glass, applied thread, clear green, BS 1; revetment marble, red and white 1, brown and white 1; shell gaideropus 1; Glass, rim of bowl with thickened rim and straight walls (as Jalame 7, p. 41), clear colorless, D. 0.09; glass, clear, colorless bs 1; lamps, premedieval 2; Iron, round shank, 1; Iron, fragments, 4; Bronze, crochet hook, 1; Glass, rim of bowl with outfolded rim (as Jalame 13, p. 42), clear colorless, D. 0.05; Bone- complete radioulna of Aves, lg (Bird - Large) - 1 example(s).; Bone- most (nearly complete) metacarpal of Ovis aries (Sheep - Domestic) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft tarsometatarsus - 1 example(s).; Bone- tooth, incisor of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 1 example(s).
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		82.65-83.85m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Thanos Webb (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) Object: MF 2008 31