| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 761 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Shallow pit under 758 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 761 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/05/03 | |
| Stratum: | 30% tile, pottery, bone, iron, fine pebbles to cobbles, little bits of carbon | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is level. The soil color is dark yellowish brown. The soil compaction is soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silt. | |
| Notes: | Bothros under 758, has very clear rounded shape and cuts into a compact layer that does not contain pottery. This top layer was mounded up, so that it extended above the elevation of the compact layer it was cut into. 5.5.2012 This so-called "bothros" ended up being very shallow, and only extended for one more, shallow, layer before terminating. Therefore, despite the extreme roundness of the shape of its cut, this shallow pit should not be considered a formalized bothros. 24 May 2012: We now believe this is the continuation of the fill of pit C847, which was first identified in session 1 and partially excavated as 691. 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: | Plainware. pitcher1 bodysherd. frankish matte painted; Fineware. prefrankish2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300), bowl. frankish; Fineware. glaze painted IV, slipped (1220-1260), bowl. 1 rim. 1 bodysherd. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 6 frag(s) 0.09 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 18 frag(s) 0.29 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 5 frag(s) 0.4 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | marble, white, 2; iron, knife like MF 7884 but no handle, blade, 1; iron, lump, 1 | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | 3/4 13th | |
| Grid: | 268.69-267.54E, 1012.12-1013.22N | |
| XMin: | 267.54 | |
| XMax: | 268.69 | |
| YMin: | 1012.12 | |
| YMax: | 1013.22 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.09-86.22m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Jonida Martini, and Rachel McCleery (2012-04-30 to 2012-05-19) |