| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 758 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Yellow tile fill in W of pit | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 758 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/05/04 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2012-034 | |
| Stratum: | 50% tile, ceramic, iron, bone (fish, bird, and other faunal), carbon, at least 1 rounded boulder, glass, shell, fine pebbles (rounded to angular, spherical) to cobbles (angular, tabular) | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is moderate down to the E. The soil color is light greyish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silty clay. | |
| Notes: | Excavation continued for the second day with the 758 layer, which lies on the W part of what appears to be now a large pit. It's quite a thick layer so far, in a yellowish color, and with a large presence of tile, pottery, bone and occasionally iron slag, glass, or small marble pieces. As noted previously, 758 is very similar to layer 756 that was removed before, and is probably the same dumping event. Flotation sample was taken on 3/5/12. Photograph 2012-219 was taken 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 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. late sgraffito, slipped style VII (1250-1300), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Plainware. stamnos. 1 handle. 9 bodysherds. matte painted; Cooking ware. triangular rim stew pot (1100-1270)5 rims. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. (saved to lot) .no overglaze; Coarseware. amphora1 handle. high-swung handles; Fineware. prefrankish11 bodysherds. ; Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)1 rim. (saved to lot) .; Fineware. ww polychrome (1050-1120) (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. gunsenin III amphora (1200-1300)1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 11 frag(s) 0.2 kg. (27% saved) fineware. | |
| 481 frag(s) 13.45 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 180 frag(s) 2.9 kg. (3% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | glass, clear, light green, bs, 1, rim, 1; iron, implement, 1; iron, slag, 2; iron, nail, with head, 3, no head, 3; iron, bands shaped into rings, 3; iron, fragments of sheets, 4; bronze, ring with attached spoke similar to keys in outline and mirror bases in thickness but no exact comparanda found in collection, L. 0.38 W. 0.26 Interior Diam. 0.13 Ring thickness 0.06 stem thickness, 0.08,1; glass, clear, light green, bowl with cracked-off rim, rim, 1; glass, clear, blue, rim, 2, bs, 1; glass, clear, blue, stemmed goblet, base, 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | mid-13th c. | |
| Grid: | 268.08-265.97E, 1011.87-1013.94N | |
| XMin: | 265.97 | |
| XMax: | 268.08 | |
| YMin: | 1011.87 | |
| YMax: | 1013.94 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.15-86.79m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Jonida Martini, and Rachel McCleery (2012-04-30 to 2012-05-19) |