Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 5815 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Basket | | Name: | | Nezi Field, context 5815 | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context Type: | | Fill | | Title: | | Soft chunky lens on pebble floor in courtyard | | Category: | | Deposit | | Notebook: | | 1101 | | Context: | | 5815 | | Page: | | 0 | | Date: | | 2008/06/05 | | Lot: | | Lot 2008-062 | | Stratum: | | 50%: tile, bone, pottery, pebbles (sm-lg), cobbles | | Description: | | The soil color is light yellowish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | | Notes: | | Deposit 5815 is a soft rubbly lens that appears to be part of the same surface with 5803. As we dig farther to the east the soil becomes darker and more rubbly. This soft fill 5815 appears to be the same as the softer fill in the sw of 5803 and we are hoping to reveal more of the pebble surface with its removal. 5815 has very diffuse boundaries with 5803. 5815 was over at its western edge by the very hard 5814. It seems likely that the eastern portion of the softer deposit 5815 was excavated with the removal of the surface 5803. As mentioned above, the change was diffuse, however the removal of these two lenses revealed the same continuous pebble surface and a patch of plaster/cement, this portion of the pebble floor is at the bottom of the slope down from a hump in the surface, so 5815 can plausibly be interpreted as a leveling patch in the pebble floor. | | Context Pottery: | | Coarseware. pitcher. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. basin. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww, dish. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pithos. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pedestaled dish. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww, cup. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. amphora. 3 handles. 18 bodysherds. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), mug. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. premedieval3 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. ww, kettle. 5 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | | Pottery Summary: | | 9 frag(s) 0.05 kg. (33% saved) fineware. | | | | 235 frag(s) 5.42 kg. (3% saved) coarseware. | | | | 30 frag(s) 0.12 kg. (20% saved) cooking ware. | | Context Artifacts: | | glass clear bluish bs 1, jug with single trail bs 1 | | Period: | | Late Byzantine (1059-1210 AD) | | Chronology: | | late 11th century npd | | Grid: | | 270.61-268.11E, 1030.8-1032.11N | | XMin: | | 268.11 | | XMax: | | 270.61 | | YMin: | | 1030.8 | | YMax: | | 1032.11 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | Masl: | | 84.48-84.58m. | | References: | | Report: Nezi Field 2008 by Jody Cundy and Megan Thompsen (2008-04-07 to 2008-06-13)
Image: digital 2008 0193
Image: digital 2008 0194
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