| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 97 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Title: | black ash associated with an oven | |
| Category: | Deposit | |
| Notebook: | 1100 | |
| Context: | 97 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2007/05/10 | |
| Stratum: | Inclusions 90%: primarily ash (70%) and other inclusions (20%) comprising roots, bone, pottery, stones (coarse pebbles, medium pebbles, fine pebbles). | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the SE. Bottom slope of the context is slight down to the SEThe soil color is dark greyish brown. The soil compaction is very soft. The soil is poorly sorted. It is silt. | |
| Notes: | Black ash to the E and NE of the possible oven (aka orange clay feature), cutting the clay surface later excavated as B102=B105=B106=B108. In order to test whether a large percentage of the deposit should be water sieved, we filled a plastic basket with four shovelfuls of the deposit and added just about the same volume of water to see what material floated to the top of the water. There was a lot of carbon. So we decided to water sieve 50% of the total deposit. In selecting the amount of the deposit to be water sieved, we alternated one shovelful into a plastic sack for water sieving, one shovelful into the barrow for dry sieving, until 50% of the total deposit was in the sack to be water sieved. A portion of the B97 dry sieve material has possible been contaminated with material from B94. When taking the first barrowful of B97 to the dry sieve, one of the workmen dumped it on the remains of soil from B94. We separated out as much of the dumped B97 as we were sure was clean, and marked the contaminated portion with a different tag. The majority of B97 to be dry sieved was kept separate and clean. We have revealed under B97, the ashy deposit, another clay surface that underlies the clay surface (B94) previously uncovered under the tile scatter B51. The southern fifth of the area underneath B97 has been disturbed by the modern tree pit B21/B25 and is much softer to dig. The new clay surface (excavated as B122) revealed under B97, probably an earlier phase of flooring, is greyer and darker than the clay surface revealed under B51 (which was light orange and white) and later excavated as B100=B102=B105=B106=B108. [Later note: In pottery reading, sieved material known to have been accidentally contaminated was discarded]. | |
| Context Pottery: | Cooking ware. vertical rim stewpot (1270-1320)7 rims. 2 handles. ; Coarseware. matte painted, stamnos. 1 rim. 1 handle. 15 bodysherds. ; Fineware. slipped plain glazed (1100-1300)2 rims. 2 bodysherds. ; Fineware. metallic ware, unslipped (1275-1335), bowl. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. matte painted, pitcher. 1 handle. 1 bodysherd. ; Coarseware. plain, stamnos. 1 rim. 1 handle. 47 bodysherds. ; Fineware. RMR, slipped (1275-1325), bowl. 1 rim. ; Fineware. protomaiolica, slipped (1260-1325), bowl. 1 rim. | |
| Pottery Summary: | 9 frag(s) 0.01 kg. (0% saved) fineware. | |
| 162 frag(s) 1.12 kg. (0% saved) coarseware. | ||
| 52 frag(s) 0.82 kg. (0% saved) cooking ware. | ||
| Context Artifacts: | iron nail square shank 1; bone unid 35; iron spearhead narrow leaf-shaped blade haft broken off (similar to Corinth XII, no. 1548) 1 (saved to lot) | |
| Period: | Frankish (1210-1458 AD) | |
| Chronology: | ca. 1280-1290 CE | |
| Grid: | 271-268.58E, 1001.4-1004.4N | |
| XMin: | 268.58 | |
| XMax: | 271 | |
| YMin: | 1001.4 | |
| YMax: | 1004.4 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 87.4-87.5m. | |
| Is Above: | 122 | |
| Is Below: | 81 | |
| References: | Report: Nezi Field 2007 by Lydia Herring, Josh Langseth, Kris Lorenzo (2007-04-09 to 2007-05-18) Image: digital 2007 0337 Image: digital 2007 0338 Image: digital 2007 0339 Coin: 2007 119 Coin: 2007 120 |
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