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| A compact group of four complete vases and a lamp, found on a house floor; possibly the remains of a sacrificial pyre but without evidence of burning or the characteristic votive vases.
Layer II, "nest ... 425-400 B.C. |
E.L. Smithson: Group H: Collapsed well west of the Great Drain.
First described as 105-107/Protogeometric Pit ... Protogeometric |
Fills from construction and reconstruction of a house. "Brown House" = House A (RSY Hesp. 20) (and pit under Layer 4) in the industrial area west of the Areopagus.
Under the original floor of this house ... Second half of the 5th. c. B.C. |
"South Triangle" abandonment filling over Brown House (House A) in the industrial area. Layers 1-3 and layer 4, to floor of second period. As late as the 3rd. c. B.C. but composed largely of earlier material ... 3rd c. B.C. and earlier |
Fillings to either side of the Great Drain, in the southern part of the area west of the Areopagus; various levels, late 6th. and early 5th c. B.C. to Sullan destruction. Coins:
26 July 1946 #1-#2
30 July ... Late 6th. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D. |
| Looking north: House L (L) at top, Polygonal Wall at right (PW), Wall 9 (9) at center: Layer III strosis ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Layer IV looking southeast. (PW)=Polygonal Wall, (9)=Wall 9 ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking northeast: (SP)=South Pit, before removal; (NP)=North Pit, (7)=Wall 7, (9)=Wall 9, (P)=Polygonal Wall ... AMS 636 Horizontal (normal) ... 30 Jul 1946 |
| Looking north: (SP)=South Pit, before removal, (NP)=North Pit, (7)=Wall 7, (9)=Wall 9, (P)=Polygonal Wall, (L)=House L ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking north, before digging. House L (L), Polygonal Wall (P), Drain West Wall D, Poros channel block (C) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking west: Layer III at strosis, cleaned. (L)=House L, (S)=Spur Wall (P)=Polygonal Wall, (9)=Wall 9, (D)=Drain wall ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking North-Northeast: Layer II cleaned. (NP)=North Pier. Walls labeled by numbers. (P)=Polygonal Wall ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking west: After digging Layer III, surface of Layer IV in front of Polygonal Wall ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking east: Layer III before digging. P=Polygonal Wall, 7 and 9=Walls 7 and 9 respectively ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Layer IV cleaned, looking east. L=House L, NP=North Pier ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Layer IV cleaned, looking north. L=House L, NP=North Pier ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Polygonal Wall looking west, surface of Layer IV cleaned in front of it ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking south: Walls 3 ans 7 as labeled, Polygonal Wall (P) at left ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Pits in bedrock ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Pits in bedrock, looking north. Wall 8 at right, with Wall 9 joining it at upper corner ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking east: Corner of Wall 8-9. NP=North Pier ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking south: P=Polygonal Wall, Layer V ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking south along Polygonal Wall: Layer V, Walls 9 and 8A ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking east, bedrock cleared. P=Polygonal Wall ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking west: Bedrock cleaned. Layers labeled (no visible martyr of Layer V) ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Area cleared before digging, looking south: Drain on left, House L to right ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking south: Back of drain wall and supplementary wall behind it, cross walls at 90 and 94 ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking east: Back of drain wall and supplementary wall behind it. At left wall at 90 ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking north: W=Well at 89. At right (D) is the west face of wall of Great Drain ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Looking north: D=west wall of Great Drain, Δ=north wall of small drain, W=Well at 89 ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Polygonal Wall cleaned, looking west ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Polygonal Wall, looking west ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Polygonal Wall, looking southwest ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
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