| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6776 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Fill | |
| Title: | Destruction fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1104 | |
| Context: | 6776 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2010/04/19 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2010-030 | |
| Stratum: | 5-10% inclusions: tile, pottery, stones (fine-coarse pebbles; spherical-tabular; angular-subrounded) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the N. The soil color is dark reddish brown. The soil compaction is firm. The soil is moderately sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | Context 6776 is located in the northern part of the room west of the courtyard of the Byzantine house. It was revealed by the removal of context 6773 and is truncated to the east by pit 6761 (cut 6762). Context 6776 continues beneath wall 5725 to the north and will be present in the room west of the courtyard. The removal of context 6776 revealed a layer of much darker soil visible in the scarp of pit 6761 and also revealed several large stones at its eastern end. In the southern part of the context more a white marl clay layer also came to light. It is possible that context 6776 represents some type of shallow leveling fill associated with surface 6773. The soil is dark reddish brown clayey silt with 5-10% inclusions (stone, tile, pottery). During the excavation of context 6776 numerous patches of burning were revealed mixed in with the soil. They could argue for some destruction episode related to the deposition of this layer. Context 6776 is much shallower at its southern limits against the north face of structure 6738. At the northern end of the context it is much deeper. This could be evidence of some type of slumping away from the structure which is also evident with the white marl layer below this. We also decided to take a sample for flotation which serves as a good comparison with the samples from pit 6761 and surface 6773. There was a lot of small chips of charcoal in the black soil patches, but the entire context is lacking in any bone finds. The bone fragments we did find were a green color due to metal in the soil. We also left a pedestal around the base of pithos 6519 on the southern side of wall 5725. It also came to light that the white marl was cut in the eastern side by a context related to the stones in that area. In the western part of 6776 the surface was cut by a large rectangular patch of harder soil. However, digging further revealed the eastern cut to have been falsely interpreted and we took out a shallow lens in this area along with context 6776. It also seems that the stones being revealed are part of the white marl layer. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. Cooking pot with horizontal thickened rim1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. Table amphora1 handle. ; Fineware. Roman Echinus bowl1 rim. ; Coarseware. Niederbieder 772 bodysherds. ; Coarseware. Table amphora1 complete profile. ; Fineware. Arettine unidentified1 rim. 1 bodysherd. ; Cooking ware. Cooking pot1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. preroman42 bodysherds. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 47 frag(s) 0.25 kg. (26% saved) fineware. | |
| 382 frag(s) 3.68 kg. (13% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 146 frag(s) 0.78 kg. (3% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | Glass 1; Marble, revetement 2; Lamp, type 27, nozzle 1; Stone, tessera 1 (white limestone); Iron, nail 3, lump 4; Wall plaster, white4, red 5, red-striped 2; Lamp, Attic, nozzle 1, handle 1; Bronze, lump 24, nail 5, strip 2, circle with hole at center 2; Shell, venus 2; Bone- tooth of Homo sapiens (Human) - 1 example(s). | |
| Period: | Late Roman (5th -6th c AD) | |
| Chronology: | 4th-6th NPD | |
| Grid: | 263.86-261.49E, 1032.7-1034.55N | |
| XMin: | 261.49 | |
| XMax: | 263.86 | |
| YMin: | 1032.7 | |
| YMax: | 1034.55 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 83.12-83.21m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2010 by Scott Gallimore (2010-04-07 to 2010-04-23) Coins (4) |