"Type","dc-date","Redirect","Chronology","dc-publisher","Icon","dc-description","Name","dc-subject","dc-creator","Id","Collection","UserLevel","dc-title"
"Deposit","May-June 1939","","Myc. III A:1","","Agora:Image:2000.02.0587::/Agora/2000/2000.02/2000.02.0587.tif::2014::1342","Mycenaean Chamber Tomb occupies a considerable part of the western half of section ΕΕ; lies about half way up the north slope of the Areopagus towards its eastern end, just below the highest point of the hill. The tomb consists of a roughly rectangular chamber approached from the north by a long dromos. it is entirely hewn out of the rock of the hill and except for the wall of rough stones that blocked the doorway, there is no masonry. The rock from which it is cut, is the greenish clayey shale which underlies most of the Agora area. ; The dromos has a preserved length of about eleven meters. It was originally several meters longer but its northern end was cut off by a late Roman retaining wall. For most of its length it is about two meters wide, but near the door of the chamber it widens slightly to about 2.40m. Its sides are not vertical, but slope slightly inward so that  the highest preserved point the width is only about 1.50m. The floor of the dromos is not quite level but slopes very slightly downwards toward the chamber, being about 20 cm lower in front of the door, than it is at the outer end. The maximum preserved depth in front of the doorway is about 2.90m but originally it must have been a meter or two deeper, for the surface of bedrock has been considerably cut down here in modern and ancient times. The fill of the dromos was uniform throughout its length: soft clean greenish earth with pebbles and occasional small stones; few sherds. The only disturbances in this fill were three pits of the Turkish period near the north end.; The door or entrance passage is narrower than the dromos (width ca. 1.20m and narrows very slightly to about 1.10m at the top; maximum height 2.40m). It is tunneled into the bedrock and has a slightly rounded roof which is nowhere very well preserved. Its outer or northern end was blocked by a neatly made dry wall of rough field stones. This wall was 1.40m thick and ran right up to the roof of the passage. It had obviously never been disturbed since the day it was built. When we removed the wall we were able to support the crumbly bedrock roof with plaster and iron rods. No objects of any sort were found either in or under the wall. The inner and southern end of the entrance passage was filed with fallen bedrock from its own roof and eat side.; The chamber (max N-S dimension 4.30m, max E-W dimension 5.90m, max height 2.75m) is roughly rectangular in shape and is entirely hollowed out of the rock. It is not symmetrically set with the dromos, but it is set at a slight angle. Its sides are not straight, either vertically and horizontally; its angles are not right angles; Its corners are rounded. Its roof has entirely caved in, except for a small bit projecting at the north end of the west side; probably was not flat but slightly concave (all along the north side it seems that it rises from the sides toward the center).; Across the east and west ends of the chamber there is a low rock-cut bench (average width 0.75m; average height 0.60m). There is only one grave cutting in the floor of the chamber, neatly placed in the SW corner (1.80m length; 0.60m width; 1.20m depth). Its cover slab, a piece of grayish slaty stone (1.90m length; 0.60m width; 0.15m thickness), lay on the floor beside it.; The fill in and above the chamber had not been seriously disturbed since Mycenaean times. High above the chamber to the south, about five meters above its floor, is the remains of a wall of a late Roman house, part of which passed over the southwest corner of the chamber and had to be removed. About a meter below this, and again over the southwest quarter of the chamber, was a corner of light rubble wall of late hellenistic times. Neither of these walls disturbed the tomb proper in any way.; Body and offerings were removed from the grave not long after they had been placed there (Mycenaean times); the chamber must had been entered by digging down from the top in the western half.","N 21-22:1","","","Agora:Deposit:N 21-22:1","Agora","","Tomb of the Ivory Pyxides"
"Deposit","May 1939","","Myc. IIIA, early 14th c.","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0105::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0105.tif::657::474","Mycenaean Small Chamber tomb.; The cist measures 1,90m E to W, 0.75-0.90m N to S, max. depth -1.30m. Nothing was found in it; cleaned in modern times and used as a cesspool. Some of the SW part of it had also been cut away in Roman times by a terracotta drain. All that remains of the chamber is a small segment with a maximum preserved dimension of 1.20m, which is bordered on the north by a modern wall and on the east by a cesspool. The cutting is not straight either in vertical or horizontal section, which shows that the chamber was circular in plan and probably roughly semi-circular in section. The chamber is hewn out of the soft clayey bedrock of the hill and its sides are not walled. Its diameter may be estimated at about three meters, its height at about two. It must have been from the north as the hill slopes downward in this direction, but everything was cut away in modern times if not earlier. A terracotta Roman drain cuts across the chamber from SE to NW and its bottom is slightly below the floor of the chamber.; The objects were found lying on or just above the floor of the chamber, close to the wall. They were broken and lying in disorder and pieces of bone, badly decomposed, were mixed in with them. There was also a number of small stones at one point.","N 21:5","","","Agora:Deposit:N 21:5","Agora","","Disturbed Tomb with Cist Grave"
"Deposit","22 April 1939","","Middle Geometric II","","Agora:Image:1997.20.0154::/Agora/1997/1997.20/1997.20.0154.tif::476::659","Grave. Bones discarded.; Burial lies over dromos of Mycenaean chamber tomb N 21-22:1. The roots of a tree had upturned the bones, but the head probably lay at the northeast.","N 21:6","","Eugene Vanderpool","Agora:Deposit:N 21:6","Agora","","Disturbed inhumation"
"Deposit","2-24 May 1939","","Late 3rd c.-earliest 4th c. A.D.","","","First trial east Stoa colonnade, N. of S. wall III, layer 12.; Note quantities of cattle bones, the knuckles sawn off and many worked bits. Evidently a bone implement factory near by. [nbp. 2139]","Q-R 14:1","","","Agora:Deposit:Q-R 14:1","Agora","","Library of Pantainos - Bone factory"
"Deposit","6-13 May 1939","","600-550 B.C.","","","Well at 37/Α, on the lower Acropolis slopes, west of the Panathenaic Way.","S 22:1","","","Agora:Deposit:S 22:1","Agora","","Well at 37/Α"
"Deposit","","","Mycenaean","","","Klepsydra: Pits or cuttings beneath Paved Court","T 26-27:2","","","Agora:Deposit:T 26-27:2","Agora","","Klepsydra: Pits or Cuttings Beneath Paved Court"
"Deposit","26 May-14 June 1939","","Late 2nd to early 1st c. B.C.","","","Well on the lower west slope of the Areopagus. Tiled well. The tiles were carefully made and clamped together with lead, two clamps at each joint.; Several fills but apparently all 2nd c. Material in lowest 5.00m. Identified as use fill by numerous basket-handled water jars and whole pots.","D 19:2","","","Agora:Deposit:D 19:2","Agora","","Well"
"Deposit","10 March 1939","","Ca. 375-350 B.C.","","","""Foundry Pit"": N-S Cut on 50m. line (area of Stoa, Layer VII, with slag). A foundry pit in the courtyard of a small metalworking establishment outside the Agora to the northwest. ; Both the courtyard and the pit preserved many traces of iron-working including slag, ash and charcoal, along with a considerable amount of pottery, figured, plain glazed and coarse, all fragmentary but constituting a homogeneous deposit, most of it rather earlier than  the most developed material from Olynthos.  ; A few pieces not directly from the pit, but from closely related levels in the immediate vicinity are referred to this deposit.; Formerly deposit no. F 2:1.","E 2:3","","","Agora:Deposit:E 2:3","Agora","","Foundry Pit"