Collection: | Corinth | |
Type: | Basket | |
Name: | Nezi Field, context 671 | |
Area: | Nezi Field | |
Title: | Well for welhead 346 | |
Category: | Structure | |
Notebook: | 1106 | |
Context: | 671 | |
Page: | 0 | |
Date: | 2012/04/06 | |
Lot: | Lot 2012-017 | |
Stratum: | 20% inclusions. Ceramic, fine and medium pebbles that are subrounded and tabular, bronze | |
Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark reddish brown. It is silty sand. Material finish: squared boulders, internal wall; rounded. Material construction: regular courses. Material bonding: mud plaster. | |
Notes: | The soil is siltier than that of the surrounding matrix. Stones on the interior of the well's wall are squared and set in regular courses, while those toward the ouside of the wall are rounded or unworked and not set in regular courses. Mud brick was used as a binding agent between boulders. 19.4.2012 At 85.98 elevation in the well's fill (726), the soil changed. We covered the bottom of 726 with a bit of sieved soil and plastic in order to protect the exposed jug and prevent contamination and then proceeded to take down the well stones of 671. We continued to sieve 100% of the context. One of the stones in the well wall was preliminarily identified as salt (14x13 cm) by Thanos and Thanasis, however further testing confirms that it neither tastes like salt nor does the crystalline structure cause square breaks as would be expected for salt. It also does not disssolve on the tongue. A large amount of ceramic with glass slag inclusions was found. We gathered the pieces and brought them to the museum for further investigation. Heather thinks it may have been part of an industrial process. | |
Context Pottery: | Fineware. post-medieval sgraffito1 complete profile. ; Fineware. medieval9 bodysherds. ; Fineware. premedieval18 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. basin1 complete profile. ; Fineware. post-medieval, pitcher. ; Coarseware. pitcher1 rim. 1 bodysherd. early modern, coned; Fineware. late champs levee fine, slipped style VI (1200-1225), bowl. 1 bodysherd. | |
Pottery Summary: | 32 frag(s) 0.48 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
568 frag(s) 7.32 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
73 frag(s) 0.6 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
Context Artifacts: | glass slag, 12; tile with possible glass slag temper, 8; glass, clear, colorless, bs, 1; glass, clear, green, bs, 1; bronze, 1; flint, chocolate brown, unifacially worked flake, similar to prehistoric artifact MF 8573 called "blade", 1; button, bone, smooth circle with large hole in center, 1; marble, disc shape, stopper?, 1; plaster, red painted, 2 | |
Period: | Turkish II (1715-1831 AD) | |
Chronology: | 18th c | |
Grid: | 261.38-259.79E, 1003.84-1005.06N | |
XMin: | 259.79 | |
XMax: | 261.38 | |
YMin: | 1003.84 | |
YMax: | 1005.06 | |
Site: | Corinth | |
City: | Ancient Corinth | |
Country: | Greece | |
Masl: | 85.35-86.79m. | |
References: | Object: C 2012 16 Coin: 2012 48 |