Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 59 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Basket | | Name: | | Nezi Field, context 59 | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Title: | | Destruction debris: Tile scatter | | Category: | | Deposit | | Notebook: | | 1100 | | Context: | | 59 | | Page: | | 0 | | Date: | | 2007/05/02 | | Stratum: | | Inclusions 40%: roots, bone, lots of tile, pottery, shell, stones (boulders, coarse pebbles, medium pebbles). Soil moist to the touch. | | Description: | | Top slope of the context is slight down to the NW. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the NWThe soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt. | | Notes: | | Changed to this basket because the tiles are more concentrated than in B58 and are lying flat. Still have not reached clay surface at beginning of this basket. The tiles in B59 are also more intact than in B58.
Below B59 there is the clay surface and black (ash?) as under B29 to W. and to the E. of the orange clay feature (excavated as B97); and also the orangey clay under B51 to N (see B100=B102=B105=B106=B108). | | Context Pottery: | | Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260)1 rim. ; Fineware. maiolica unid, bowl. 1 rim. ; Coarseware. matte painted, stamnos. 1 rim. ; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)7 rims. 3 handles. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. zeuxippus sgraffito, slipped painted (1240-1260)1 rim. ; Coarseware. matte painted incised, plate. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. matte painted22 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. undecorated, stamnos. 35 bodysherds. | | Pottery Summary: | | 3 frag(s) 0.02 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | | | | 104 frag(s) 0.8 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | | | | 110 frag(s) 0.9 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | | Context Artifacts: | | steatite button purple Byzantine incised line on shoulder (cf. MF5959 for shape) 1 (saved to lot); tile 11 including 1 joining B58; shell unid 1; bone chicken 4; iron nail 2; bone unid ca. 30; bone chicken femur 1 | | Period: | | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | | Chronology: | | ca. 1270 CE | | Grid: | | 271-269.6E, 1001-1002.1N | | XMin: | | 269.6 | | XMax: | | 271 | | YMin: | | 1001 | | YMax: | | 1002.1 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | Masl: | | 87.45-87.62m. | | Is Above: | | 94 | | Is Below: | | 58 | | References: | | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-05-18)
Image: digital 2007 0087
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