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Corinth Basket: Nezi Field, context 6938 | Collection: | | Corinth | | Type: | | Basket | | Name: | | Nezi Field, context 6938 | | Area: | | Nezi Field | | Context Type: | | Fill | | Title: | | Fill under clay foundation for tiles | | Category: | | Deposit | | Notebook: | | 1104 | | Context: | | 6938 | | Page: | | 0 | | Date: | | 2010/05/14 | | Lot: | | Lot 2010-001 | | Stratum: | | large pieces of tile, pottery, bone, small and medium pebbles | | Description: | | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty sand. | | Notes: | | 6938 is an ashy layer of soil with large tile, ceramic, pebble, and bone inclusions. We are excavating to determine the relationship to 6938 and 6807. 6938 is the clay bed upon which the tiles of the possible hearth rest (6807). We have come down upon another layer of ash, with a different reddish soil to the south and east. | | Context Pottery: | | Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), chafing dish. 1 bodysherd. ; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), bowl. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww cut (700-1120), mug. ; Cooking ware. collar rim stew pot (1000-1100)2 bodysherds. | | Pottery Summary: | | 9 frag(s) 0.04 kg. (22% saved) fineware. | | | | 67 frag(s) 1.9 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | | | | 14 frag(s) 0.15 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | | Context Artifacts: | | Bone- cranial of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 2 example(s).; Bone- limb bone, undiff. of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 7 example(s).; Bone- mandible w/teeth of Equus sp (Horse, Ass Family) - 1 example(s).; Bone- metapodial of Sus scrofa (Wild Boar or Domestic Pig) - 2 example(s).; Bone- proximal radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- proximal ulna of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- radioulna of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 2 example(s).; Bone- rib of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 7 example(s).; Bone- scapula of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 4 example(s).; Bone- shaft humerus of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft tibia of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft, distal femur of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- shaft, distal radius of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- tarsal, astragalus of Capra aegagrus hircus (Sheep/Goat) - 1 example(s).; Bone- vertebrae of Mammalia, md (Mammal - Medium) - 4 example(s). | | Period: | | Middle Byzantine (802-1058 AD) | | Chronology: | | late 11th century | | Grid: | | 274.66-273.92E, 1042.11-1043.6N | | XMin: | | 273.92 | | XMax: | | 274.66 | | YMin: | | 1042.11 | | YMax: | | 1043.6 | | Site: | | Corinth | | City: | | Ancient Corinth | | Country: | | Greece | | Masl: | | 84.24-84.38m. | | References: | | Report: Nezi Field 2010 by Johanna Best; Kelcy Sagstetter (2010-05-04 to 2010-05-21)
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