| Collection: | Corinth | |
| Type: | Basket | |
| Name: | Nezi Field, context 6827 | |
| Area: | Nezi Field | |
| Context Type: | Drain | |
| Title: | Sewer drain below 6788 | |
| Category: | Cut | |
| Notebook: | 1104 | |
| Context: | 6827 | |
| Page: | 0 | |
| Date: | 2010/04/26 | |
| Description: | Top slope of the context is slight down to the NW. Structure materials: marble, fieldstones. Material finish: mixed. Material construction: mixed. Material bonding: none. Features: Arch. Members: geison w/ claw chisel, half-column. | |
| Notes: | Structure 6827 has been identified as a sewer drain. The structure, as it has been excavated so far, consists of a combination of building materials: fieldstones, some roughly hewn, lining the drain, in addition to marble-cut architectural members used primarily as covering slabs. Thus far we have identified one geison block, overturned, in roughly the center of the context. Below it, a marble paver. Two blocks to the right, is a fluted half-column cut lengthwise. To the southwest of the geison block is a partially excavated unfluted column drum or millstone. The empolium of the possible column is off-center, suggesting hat it was once a much larger column that was later shaved down. We have yet to determine where the architectural blocks came from. Some seem weathered or at worst badly carved. From what we can observe at the end of the 1st session of 2010, the drain is oriented NW-SE and continues under wall 10086. The lack of any distinct blocks in the western half of the context--aside from a second probably geison block in the northwest--could be explained by a sudden drop in elevation at the center of the context, beneath the geison block and paver; the drain may turn out to resume lower down. The central blocks, then, may conceal a well vel sim. A flashlight is needed for close observation here. After consulting with Guy Sanders and James Herbst, who both observed the context at the end of the session, this drain could offer information on the major road network beneath the Medieval Byzantine phases. Subsequent careful removal of the top blocks may also yield more answers. On May 5th 2010 Pearson, Cameron and Nemets-Carlson, Lincoln began to remove the 4 covering blocks over the channel and investigated the contents of the channel. The eastern end under the stones contained a silty layer (6854) with almost no inclusions above and below which (6856, 6860, 6861, 6864) were layers with more sherds and clay. 6832 filled the covered part to the west, and 6867 filled the lowest layer we dug spanning the entire drain structure. | |
| Grid: | 281.49-278.02E, 1028.67-1030.48N | |
| XMin: | 278.02 | |
| XMax: | 281.49 | |
| YMin: | 1028.67 | |
| YMax: | 1030.48 | |
| Site: | Corinth | |
| City: | Ancient Corinth | |
| Country: | Greece | |
| Masl: | 83.99m. | |
| References: | Images (12) Object: A 2010 1 |
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