| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 846 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | Harder black soil W of wall 746 | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1106 | |
| Context: | 846 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2012/05/18 | |
| Lot: | Lot 2012-046 | |
| Stratum: | 20%: Pottery, tile, cobbles, pebbles, bone, glass, carbon. | |
| Description: | The soil color is light brownish grey. The soil compaction is loose. The soil is poorly sorted. It is clayey silt. | |
| Notes: | This context is the removal of slightly harder soil than that removed in 837. It was identified within the area originally defined as 837 during the first pass across 837. To the N, it is bordered by a strip of harder soil that extends across the trench from Eto W. We are sieving 10%. We have had to close this context due to rain. Excavation will continue here in session 3. Since G. Sanders has identified more sparkly ware in the pottery, we will be sieving 100%. Session 3, 28 May 2012: Quantity of soil removed could not be estimated by buckets, as excavation started before we (R. McCleery and K. Mahoney) arrived today. At the bottom of this context, Panos found two distinct soils - one darker in the south, extending south to the baulk, and one in the north. The north context is whiter, and runs underneath the new context 849 which is a strip of blacker, cobbly soil that runs from east to west across much of the trench. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. beaker1 rim. 1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .handmade; Fineware. ww plain (700-1120)1 bodysherd. (saved to lot) .yellow glazed thick bodied probably early; Coarseware. pitcher, pitcher. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .spined handle; Cooking ware. flaring tapered rim, stewpot. 1 rim. 18 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .; Coarseware. pitcher, pitcher. 2 rims. 1 handle. (saved to lot) .sloping handle; Cooking ware. beaker1 rim. (saved to lot) .wheelmade; Cooking ware. concave thickened rim stewpot (800-950), stewpot. 70 bodysherds. (saved to lot) .silver micaceous; Fineware. pre Byzantine31 bodysherds. ; Fineware. plain glazed, unslipped (800-1100), mug. (saved to lot) .; Cooking ware. concave thickened rim stewpot (800-950), stewpot. 21 rims. 9 handles. 13 bodysherds. (saved to lot) . | |
| Pottery Summary: | 34 frag(s) 0.14 kg. (6% saved) fineware. | |
| 851 frag(s) 13.98 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 254 frag(s) 3.03 kg. (81% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | ceramic, waster, fragment, 3; glass, clear, colorless, greenish blue tinge, rim, none joining, 3; glass, clear, colorless, greenish blue tinge, bs, 4; horn, sheep, burned, 1; glass, clear, colorless, blue tinge, bs, 2; bone, fragments, 5; glass, clear, green, bs, 4; iron, nail, rectangular shaft, shaft, 1; marble, white, revetment, 1; glass, clear, blue, bead, as MF 2392, 1; iron, nail, circular shaft, shaft, 1; waterpipe, joining context 849, rim, 1; iron, nail, rectangular shaft?, shaft, covered in plaster?, 1; glass, clear, colorless, bs, 3; glass, clear, colorless, green tinge, bs, 1; glass, clear, colorless, greenish blue tinge, base, 1; marble, white, fragment, 1; amphora lid, Roman, 1 | |
| Period: | Early Byzantine (610-802 AD) | |
| Chronology: | late 8th-early 9th | |
| Grid: | 274.39-272.67E, 1011.2-1012.74N | |
| XMin: | 272.67 | |
| XMax: | 274.39 | |
| YMin: | 1011.2 | |
| YMax: | 1012.74 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 86.09-86.48m. | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Larkin Kennedy, Jonida Martini, and Rachel McCleery (2012-04-30 to 2012-05-19) Report: Nezi Field 2012 by Kyle Mahoney and Rachel McCleery (2012-05-28 to 2012-06-15) |