| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 756 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Black fill laid against red fill | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 756 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/05/02 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2012-034 | |
| Stratum: | 30% shell, bone, ceramic, marble, carbon, fine pebbles (rounded, spherical), medium pebbles (sub-rounded, tabular) to cobbles (angular, tabular), iron | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark greenish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | It now appears to Panos that a much larger pit than previously suspected was in this area, as this fill (this layer of which having been designated as 756) is laid against the red layer to the E, with a fairly sharp vertical border separating them on this side. The overlying layers (754-752) as well as the yellowish, tile-filled western portion (758) are all best considered distinct layers, or dump events, filling in this larger pit. This pit has probably been cut into the red layer to the east. We have been assigning each layer a separate context, which will probably be put together after pottery reading, and this layer, 756, can be considered the lowest so far. At the bottom of 756, in the north, can be seen the red layer, and in the south another pit outline is visible going even deeper through the red layer. Photos 2012-215 and 2012-216 document the bottom of this context after excavation. 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. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), plate. 2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .no overglaze; Coarseware. stamnos. 3 handles. 9 bodysherds. matte painted; Fineware. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. (saved to lot) .incised bird; Fineware. grayware, pedestal bowl. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .late neolithic; Fineware. frankish incised1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 3 rims. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .no overglaze; Fineware. prefrankish2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. miscellaneous frankish12 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)2 rims. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. matte painted, pitcher. 1 rim. matte painted; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), plate. 3 rims. (saved to lot) .no overglaze | |
| Pottery Summary: | 27 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (93% saved) fineware. | |
| 346 frag(s) 6.6 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 55 frag(s) 1.2 kg. (7% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass, clear, colorless, bs, 1; iron slag, 1; marble, green, 2; glass, clear, green, bs, 1; glass, clear, blue, thumb-indented cup, base, 1; marble, white, 2; lamp (candle stick), base, 1, non-joining 754 (saved to lot); marble, white, slab with cross in relief (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 3/4 13th c. | |
| Grid: | 268.81-267.03E, 1012.07-1013.95N | |
| XMin: | 267.03 | |
| XMax: | 268.81 | |
| YMin: | 1012.07 | |
| YMax: | 1013.95 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.22-86.37m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Jonida Martini, and Rachel McCleery (2012-04-30 to 2012-05-19) Object: MF 2012 66 |
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