Corinth Basket Nezi Field, context 754

Collection:		Corinth
Type:		Basket
Name:		Nezi Field, context 754
Area:		Nezi Field
Title:		Big pit near 430
Category:		Deposit
Notebook:		1106
Context:		754
Page:		0
Date:		2012/05/02
Stratum:		40% bone, ceramic, tile, marble stick, iron nails, fine pebbles (spherical, rounded) to cobbles (subrounded, tabular), glass
Description:		Top slope of the context is moderate down to the E. The soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is sandy silt.
Notes:		A pit edge has been discovered to the W of pit 753. This pit edge has been determined to form the western boundary to a much larger pit containing this shallow, sandy silt layer (754) that overlies a yellower, tile-filled layer (758) on this W side, and which contacts pit 431 along its northeast quarter as well as reaching the darker fill and the red layer to the east. After excavation, two photographs were taken of the pit: 2012-13 (from the W) and 2012-14 (from the E). 24 May 2012: We now think this is one of several layers of fill (752, 753, 754, 756, and 758) that were cut by a Frankish pit (C847). Three layers of fill were excavated separately in the Frankish C847 pit: 691, 761, and 763. Because the E boundary of the cut for C847 coincided with an earlier cut for a much larger Byzantine pit (C784) while the W boundary did not, the Frankish pit C847 was not recognized in the layers beneath 691 until 758, when the Byzantine pit began to bottom out. Portions of 752, 753, 754, 756, and 758 represent the Byzantine pit fills, but all have been contaminated by the Frankish pottery from the fill of C847 which was dug together with them. This interpretation is supported by photos taken during excavation, where the outline of C847 is clearly visible (see 2012-0215, 2012-0216, 2012-0219, and 2012-223), as well as by a join found between the lotted pottery from pit fill 691 from session 1 (lot 2012-12) and our context 756 (lot 2012-34). There may have been more joins present originally, but since the rest of the pottery from 691 has already been thrown, we are unable to pursue this hypothesis further. - RM/JM
Context Pottery:		Fineware. premedieval1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. stamnos. 1 handle. 6 bodysherds. frankish matte painted; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120), cup.
Pottery Summary:		2 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware.
		96 frag(s) 2.25 kg. (0% saved) coarseware.
		20 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (10% saved) cooking ware.
Context Artifacts:		lamp/candlestick, base, 1, handle, 1, nonjoin 752 (saved to lot); shale, decorative border, similar to A 2011-04; iron, nail, with head, 1, without head, 3; glass, clear, tubular ring foot, base, 1
Period:		Frankish (1210-1458 AD)
Chronology:		npd, mid-13th c. by pottery
Grid:		268.81-265.8E, 1011.67-1013.78N
XMin:		265.8
XMax:		268.81
YMin:		1011.67
YMax:		1013.78
Site:		Corinth
City:		Ancient Corinth
Country:		Greece
Masl:		86.3-86.82m.
References:		Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Jonida Martini, and Rachel McCleery (2012-04-30 to 2012-05-19) Object: MF 2012 16