| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 5744 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | dumped fill to W of 1960s courtyard | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1101 | |
| Context: | 5744 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2008/06/02 | |
| Stratum: | 30%: large tile fragments, small angular cobbles, large angular pebbles, bone | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is light reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | |
| Notes: | The aim of this context was to expose the limit of the cut exposed by the excavation of light yellow fill 5735. Upon removal of 5735, we noticed an edge that appered almost vertical, running along the line of an E-W wall spur associated with the 1960s courtyard to the E. The cut that we discovered appeared to form a boundary between the two exposed red contexts (this one and the one revealed by 5735), which are distinguiished by the presence of tiles to the S (5744), and which are not present to the N. We located the limits of the cut to the W and S. It goes all the way to the E-W wall bounding this area, and truncates the white plastered surface exposed in the excavation of context 5667. Depending on how confident the pickman is about the limit of the cut to the N (and currently it looks pretty good), the cut is somewhat mysterious. It seems well-placed to relate as a robbing trench for a N-S wall bounding everything to the W as far as Wall 5724 (AKA 1963 Wall 4), but the fact that it stops 2.50 m N of where it begins is problematic; perhaps we are dealing with separate robbing events, or something else entirely. We ended the context, although part of the boundary was diffuse, because we uncovered a small, hard white area that appeared to overlie an exposed, soft dark soil that appears the same as the reddish brown soil that started the context.**** We also noticed that the W boundary of the deposit is no longer sharp; instead, the exposed layer as it rests now goes beneath the white. When we started this context, their borders were diffuse, so we think that this is reflective of a layer of dumped fill lying against the white layer and above the underlying layer that they share-- not the fill of a pit cut, as originally thought. ***AS OF 04.06.08, we are interpreting the white fill as the fill of a N-S robbing trench. | |
| Context Pottery: | Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300)1 rim. 2 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. amphora. 1 handle. 2 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 11 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 171 frag(s) 1.95 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 46 frag(s) 0.45 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | bronze fragment 1; glass cup with solid base, green, clear, as Jalame p. 61, no. 162, fig. 4-23, pl. 4-9, rim 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 3rd quarter of the 13th c. | |
| Grid: | 265.6-264E, 1030.5-1032.5N | |
| XMin: | 264 | |
| XMax: | 265.6 | |
| YMin: | 1030.5 | |
| YMax: | 1032.5 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 84.69-84.78m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Sarah Lima (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13) |