| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5519 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Wall | |
| Title: | Partially robbed out E-W wall to north of martyr | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5519 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/05/16 | |
| Description: | Structure materials: limestone blocks, roof tiles. Material size: Blocks: 0.69x0.28x0.45, tile: 0.17x0.04. Material finish: mixed. Material construction: uncertain. Material bonding: uncertain. | |
| Notes: | Not much of this wall remains. We have excavated a robbing trench (5511) which robbed out most of this wall. What remains of the wall to the west of the robbing trench 5511 is 0.92m of foundation running under wall 5485 and then extends eastward 1.52m to the end of the west block revealed in robbing trench 5511. The wall here has a course of roughly hewn and unworked stone under a course of tile. There is one unworked stone above this as well as a build up of tile and stone in mud which may have been part of the construction of 5485 as one of its stones is propped up by this build up. It is possible that this build up is part of our wall, but it is wider than 5519 suggesting that it extends south with wall 5485 and is not part of 5519. We will know more once the martyr is taken down and more of 5485 is revealed. To the east there is the one block revealed in the robbing trench 5511 which projects 0.15m from under a large, squared block (1.30m x 0.46m x 0.68m). The east end of this block is the end of the wall where it meets a N-S running wall. This block sits atop a course of tile, which is on top of the stone revealed in robbing trench 5511. This block sits atop a course of tile, which is on top of the stone revealed in RT 5511. The wall level has a course of roughly hewn unworked stone under a course of tile. There is one unworked stone above this as well as a build up of tile and stone in mud which may have been part of the construction of 5485 as one of its stones is proped up by this build up. It is possible that this build up is part of our wall, but it is wider than 5519 suggesting that it extends south with wall 5485 and is not part of 5519. We will know more once the martyr is taken down and more of 5485 is revealed. As the martyr came down in the east, the join of walls 5519 and 5483 was revealed. They came well joined, but do not seem to be bonded-we looked at the course of tile and smaller stone under the big block in order to determine this. We are still uncertain which came first though. Revised 12.6.08 ACF: We hypothosized that wall 5483 is later than wall 5519 because it was built up against wall 5483 and because a large ashlar block from 5519 was cut back to make a corner with wall 5483. AT the bottom of robbing trench 5506, with the exception of the large stone at the west end, dirt was revealed below, but we can see that the stones to the immediate east and west of this dirt go deeper down in the soil, so we can see that the wall goes deeper but not in this part. We hypothosize that the area with no stones in it was originally a doorway for wall 5519 and robbing trench 5506 robbed out one or more stone threshold blocks. The sharp edge of the floor revealed by 5887 (this next floor will not be dug this season), which stops about 0.10 cm before wall 5519 but is at the same elevation as the bottom of robbing trench 5506, suggest that there was a threshold block here, covering the bottom of robbing trench 5506 and extending 0.10 m into the room to the south. The large ashlar block at the east end of wall 5519 (0.30 x 0.68 x 0.46) may have been a weight bearing block to support an arche doorway north of this wall and perpendicular to it. This archway probably supported stairs (now only the lowest three stairs remain). Additional Notes (SL 16-05-09) During excavations of thresholds 5647, 5670 and their foundations, walls 5519 and 5483 were found to bond. POST-EXCAVATION NOTE, 15-06-09, S.L.: Contexts 6663 and 6649, at least one of which underlies this context, were found to contain two joining coarse incised ware body fragments of the Frankish period, dating to the mid-13th century. These sherds will stratigraphically change the dates of every context that lies above them by as much as two centuries, of which this context is one. Until it is decided whether there is some other reason that this discrepancy might have occurred (e.g., these contexts need to be situated in a different place on the Harris Matrix), the dates will remain as they have been assigned on the basis of pottery/stratigraphy prior to discovering this discrepancy. | |
| Period: | Byzantine | |
| Chronology: | 12th century npd | |
| Grid: | 271.21-267.02E, 1027.1-1027.9N | |
| XMin: | 267.02 | |
| XMax: | 271.21 | |
| YMin: | 1027.1 | |
| YMax: | 1027.9 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.53-85.44m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Anne C. Feltovich, Catherine W. Person and Emily M. Rush (2008-05-05 to 2008-06-14) Report: Nezi Field 2009 by spongberg hammond lima (2009-05-20 to 2009-05-21) |