Agora Deposit: T 18:2
Title:   Well AB in ΕΛ
Category:   Well
Description:   Well ΑΒ located on the lower terrace to the north of the sanctuary(diameter 1.10m). Foot-holes were cut into the shaft at intervals of ca. 0.40m. The fill consisted mostly of small stones, dug bedrock, and mud. It was dug earlier in the 6th c. B.C. and filled and abandoned by ca. 550 B.C. Perhaps replaced by T 18:1, 7m to the South. Among the pottery, there was about 40% of earlier sherds from the 8th and 7th centuries B.C. and of Corinthian-ware (9.7%).
No period of use deposit at bottom; the well seems to have been filled shortly after it was dug.
Contents:   Objects : terracotta; loom weights; spindle whorl; cut disk; handmade-coarse ware; lamps.
Early ware : Gray Minyan; Mycenaean; Early Geometric-Protoattic; amphora; oinochoe; ray-based vessels; krater; banded wall fragments; cup/skyphos; plate; oinochoe; skyphos; bowl; banded aryballos; lekanis lid.
Coarse ware and plain ware : SOS amphora; storage jar; lekane; coarse ware.
Imported ware : bucchero; Corinthian.
Black figured : amphora; column krater; ray-based kotyle; cup-skyphos; lekythos; pyxis lid.
Archaic ware: krater; dinos; oinochoe; olpe; Corinthian type skyphos; band-cup; cup, footed; bowl; lekanis; knob; ring-stand.
Coarse ware-plain ware : amphora; lekane; pithos; cooking wares; unglazed; mottled black/brown-glazed ware; mottled red/brown-glazed ware; coarse ware.
Notes:   Lots not differentiated by level.
Bibliography:   Agora XII, p. 399.
    Agora XXI, p. 100.
    Agora XXIII, p. 336.
    Agora XXXI, pp. 168-169, 230, figs. 14 and 25.
Chronology:   Second quarter of the 6th century B.C.
Date:   9-11 July 1959
Section:   ΕΛ
Elevation:   -6m.
References:   Publications (4)
Publication Pages (14)
Objects (18)