Agora Deposit: E 14:1
Title:   Cistern
Category:   Cistern
Description:   Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the course of the passage to the east and opening into it.
A revised list of assigned objects prepared by GRE is followed here to sort objects found in the cistern system 88/ΛΔ - 95/ΚΘ - 100/ΚΘ.
Cf. E 14:3 and E 15:3.
Objects either from 95/ΚΘ (middle fill) or 88/ΛΔ (lower Hellenistic fill), but uncertain which (they are in the finds lists of both but not assigned to subdivisions PAF) are the following: P 5655, P 5656, P 5657, P 5659, BI 154, S 574, L 1788, IL 193, SS 4091.
T 220 when opened in 1981 found to contain pottery chiefly of the 3rd c. A.D. - discarded.
T 221-225 sorted in 1997, SIR.
Twenty stamped amphora handles. Most of pottery dates in second half of 3rd c. but evidence of disturbance includes coins and Knidian handles, early Roman pottery, lamp, and glass, "Pergamene" ware and fragments of 18 long-petal bowls. Possibly disturbance comes from lower fill of drawshaft E 14:3, which extended down connecting towards E 14:1. One stamp for manufacrure of molds.
Contents:   Coins:
21 May 1935 #6-#9 (from 95/ΚΘ, N passage upper fill, therefore here) (no 6 was reassigned to E 14:3 Nbpp 3082-3083).
22 May 1935 #1-#3 (ditto) (no 2 was reassigned to E 14:3 Nbpp 3082-3083).
23 May 1935 #11-#12 (ditto) (no 12 was reassigned to E 14:3 Nbpp 3082-3083).
25 May 1935 #5-#10
27 May 1935 #1-#3
28 May 1935 #1-#3
29 May 1935 #1-#4
30 May 1935 #1-#5
31 May 1935 #1-#2
1 June 1935 #1-#6
3 June 1935 #1-#4 (#3-#4 from earth)
4 June 1935 #1-#3 (from earth)
5 June 1935 #1-#8 (from earth)
7 June 1935 #14-#18 (from earth)
8 June 1935 #2-#3 (from earth)
Notes:   Subdivisions:
.1=Upper Roman fill
.2=Lower Hellenistic fill
.3=Red earth at bottom=POU
Bibliography:   Hesperia Suppl. 50 (2018), pp. 86, 100, 102, 146, nn. 116, 125.
    Hesperia Suppl. 46 (2011), p. 375.
    Hesperia Suppl. 23 (1989), p. 69.
    Hesperia 28 (1959), p. 130, n. 50.
    Hesperia Suppl. 10 (1956), p. 142, no. 84.
    Agora IV, p. 237.
    Agora V, p. 125.
    Agora VI, p. 98 (upper fill).
    Agora X, p. 67.
    Agora XII, p. 388.
    Agora XXI, p. 97.
    Agora XXII, p. 99.
    Agora XXIX, p. 446.
    Agora XXVIII, p. 243.
    Agora XXXII, p. 296.
    Agora XXXIII, p. 352.
    Agora XXXIV, p. 181.
    Agora XXXVII, pp. 83, 220.
Chronology:   Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.
Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C.
Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D.
Date:   22-31 May-3 June 1935
Section:   Γ
Grid:   Γ:88/ΛΔ
Elevation:   -5.48m.
Masl:   -5.48m.
References:   Publications (18)
Publication Pages (136)
Objects (206)
Coin: N 8491
Deposit: E 14:1.1
Deposit: E 14:1.2
Deposit: E 14:1.3