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Coins:
27 March 1937 #1 ... Early Byzantine, 11th c. A.D. |
Coins:
5 April 1937 #1
8 April 1937 #3 (disintegrated)
9 April 1937 #1
10 April 1937 #9-#67
12 April 1937 #3-#6
13 April 1937 #1, (found 7 April 1937), # 24
14 April 1937 #1-#2 (found 8 April 1937)
16 ... Late Roman, 4th-early 5th. c. A.D. |
Coins:
10 April #68-#78
12 April 1937 #1-#6, #9-#65 (found 10 April 1937)
13 April 1937 #2-#13 (found 10 April 1937)
13 April 1937 #14-#24 (found 12 April 1937)
19 April 1937 #1-#5 (found 10 and 12 April ... Early Roman, 1st c. A.D. |
| Cistern on lower north slope of Areopagus.
Latest of thirteen amphora handles dated ca.199; twelve legible coins, the latest dating ca. 196-190. Three intrusive pieces:two semiglazed fragments and piece ... 260-190 B.C. |
Upper fill (top to around 4.50m.) was in a pit of large dimensions above the preserved well shaft. From the bottom and shaft proper no catalogued pottery. No tiling in place in well but fragments of tiles ... 3rd-4th c. A.D. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave. Roughly circular pit with scraps of bone and traces of carbonized material. Four similar empty pits nearby with a little Geometric pottery ... Early Geometric |
Accumulated fillings in a system of underground drains at west end of section ΔΔ with northward continuation into and across Section Υ.
The filling in the "underground passages" in section ΔΔ appears to ... 3rd c. B.C.
2nd c A.D. |
Investigations in the area of the Odeion: lettered Odeion Trenches not otherwise specified.
The trenches were excavated by layers; these layers could be compared across the area to determine correlation ... 1st c. B.C. |
| "Room D" is the triangular area at L/15,16-2/10,12, NW of Wall 1, in E corner of basement of No.3. Hastings Street, bounded by the NE and SE walls of basement).
Bell-shaped vessel built of horizontally-laid ... 10th-11th c. A.D. |
Enchytrismos burial of an infant at the E. corner of Byzantine Room G.
The burial was in brown fill flecked with charcoal and containing brown-glazed pottery (Lot ΒΗ 472). The pot was embedded upside ... Byzantine 10th/11th c. A.D. |
Michael Laughy ... Debris pit, located in Room 2 of ΒΘ East. Pit measures ca. 2.30 by 1.70m., and nearly a meter deep. The pottery from the pit dates ca. 10th-12th c. A.D. The fill of the pit consisted of soft, black charcoal ... 10th-12th c. A.D. |
Turkish deposit of 28 gold coins inside a plain pot. Modern Context, just below basement level. Coins:
10 June 1971 #808-#835
In pot, fragments of cloth and bits of paper with Greek writing ... 1818-1819 |
Coins:
30 May 1933 #19 ... Turkish |
| Well O: EG. AS 875-878 ... Middle Geometric |
Coins:
11 March 1935 #1-#8 ... Byzantine |
Well a in west part of Odeion Cavea, probably unfinished. The dumped fill mostly potters' refuse including test pieces.
Well D. Diameter ca. 0.90m ... Early Protogeometric |
Well near SW corner of Burned Building. Depth of well 1.50m. below the bottom of the trench of the Burnt Bldg.
Estimated Grid ... Turkish |
North of east branch of Great Drain. Coins:
21 June 1973 #1 ... 4th c. A.D. |
Coins:
15 March 1934 #6 ... 6th-7th c. A.D. |
Slag pit in front of South Stoa II. The filling consisted ... of a very miscellaneous lot of stone and marble. ... In among the stones was a loose filling of ash and charcoal and iron slag ... (nbpp. 6510, ... Second half 1st c. A.D. |
A deep pit in bedrock over mouth of well. Context archaic, 6th c.
B.C., but with some traces of later disturbance. Found a circle for a well at the bottom, much water, no sherds.
Lay 2.20m south of Well ... 6th c. B.C. |
Located in Room IV, strosis 3, of SW House. Archaic, later disturbed, filling in and over undug well. See also L-M 17-18:1 where objects SS 14318 and T 3576 are actually from the filling over the undug ... 6th-5th c. B.C. |
| Pyre 1 in Central House, Room XI, strosis 3. Sacrificial pyre with characteristic small vases amid carbonized twigs and bone.
Near north side of courtyard. This pit was cut slightly into strosis 3 (lot ... 1st quarter 4th c. B.C. |
| Pyre 2 in Central House, Room X, under strosis 9. Signs of burning, carbonized food, animal bone.
In room south of courtyard. concentration of artifacts, bone, and charred material in floor makeup, no ... 290-275 B.C. |
| Cistern with dumped filling, second quarter of 4th c. B.C. Also Lot Φ 187bis (selected coarse).
No coins ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
| Date of filling early third c. B.C.
Little pottery. Seven stamped amphora handles. Latest coin dates in first third of 3rd c. One small fragment of moldmade bowl of undetermined type. Coins:
12 August ... 310-220 B.C. |
Well on lower slopes of Areopagus.
Diameter ca. 1.50m. Dumped filling of 8th c. at the top. Fill mostly Geometric but containing bits of later (even Roman) pottery. Perhaps cleaned out and refilled with ... 730-700 B.C. |
Dumped fill. Well lining collapsed at ca. 0.60m. from bottom, apparently at start of POU, forcing abandonment. Pottery described as mixed to "latest Roman", including combed and gouged; all very fragmentary; ... Late Roman |
A 3rd. c. B.C. cistern and an unfinished rectangular cutting of the 2nd c. B.C. which destroyed some of its upper part. These two features are combined in this deposit; the following objects are identified ... 3rd-2nd c. B.C. |
A well, apparently unfinished, with footholds in east and west sides ... 2nd c. A.D. |
Pocket roughly cut in bedrock; its greatest dimensions ca. 1.50m Terracotta figurines; some pottery fragments ... Early 5th c. B.C. |
Rectangular cutting, not entirely preserved, west of underground drain. Contained good black glazed pottery, some stamped, and a little coarse ware, along with bits of bone and part of a skull ... Third quarter 5th c. B.C. |
Reused as part of a modern cistern; scanty remains of ancient fill towards bottom. No containers of pottery ... 1st c. A.D. |
| Stone-curbed Pit (Sacred Pit) to North of Altar of Ares.
An accumulation of votives dating at least from the middle of the 7th. c. B.C. into the early 5th. c. Finds include those from the immediate area ... 7th-5th c. B.C. |
Filling between tongue walls to north of main apse in Late Roman complex, equals "Coroplasts' Dump" overlying Odeion south side.
Containers Ο 17-Ο 20 are from "debris of burnt building" [i.e. Odeion ... 267-ca. 350 A.D. |
Fillings associated with early houses on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus; various levels and dates.
Both houses were built in the 6th century B.C. and destroyed by the Persians; both also have ... 6rd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D. |
Channel to West of Cistern at 63/ΞΒ. Part of Cistern System A which includes the cistern 63/ΞΒ (M 19:2), this channel to the west, and the manhole at 57-58/ΞΔ-ΞΕ. Coins:
31 May 1946 #1
3 June 1946 #1
6 ... Early 3rd c. B.C. |
Well at 35/ΛH. In the northern part of the market square, north of the altar of Ares. Stony fill with late Geometric sherds. Not dug ... Late 8th century B.C. |
Byzantine Well at 54/ΜΣΤ, belonging to the house over the eastern part of the Odeion. Coins:
3 May 1935 #5
4 May 1935 #1 ... Byzantine |
Unstratified pit below east part of Odeion Cavea (Trench K).
Brann Well or Pit O. Estimated Grid ... To ca. 725 B.C. |
Well at SE corner of Court of Late Roman Building (Trench C). Estimated Grid ... 12th c. A.D. |
7th c. well below east part of Odeion Cavea Trench K). Use filling negligible; dumped filling of the second half of the 7th c. B.C.
Brann Well H. Diameter 1.10m. Cut into bedrock. During excavation seepage ... 650-600 B.C. |
| Mycenaean Grave.
One of the first Mycenaean burials found in the Agora. It consisted of a regular cist, carefully cut with vertical sides and a flat bottom, measuring 1.90m by 0.55m. There were apparently ... LH III (c. 1200) |
Grave of 38 year-old female, head NW, legs drawn up. Apparently unlined cist in bedrock or hard-packed dug-bedrock, its outlines no longer distinguishable from surrounding fill. Above skeleton, a number ... Mycenaean? |
Geometric Well South of Middle Stoa Pier 14, in the north-central part of the South Square. Water jars, simple household vases and utensils, a trial piece for use in a potter's kiln, bones of pigs and ... 775-750 B.C. |
Early Helladic Well near the very middle of the South Square ... Early Helladic |
Gravel above early road some 5m wide. The bedrock was heavily scored by traffic, and the accumulation of gravel, ca. 0.30m, thick produced Middle Helladic Pottery. This early thoroughfare ran in a northwest-southeast ... Middle Helladic |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave II: SM).
Unlined trench, roughly the size of the deceased, cut into bedrock to a depth of just over 1.50m. Oriented north-south, the tomb pit measured 1.69m in length (length ... Late Mycenaean/Submycenaean-Earliest Protogeometric |
| Use filling of middle of 1st to late 6th c. (Roman Group M); dumped filling of 9th and 10th c. Down to a depth of about 21.00m. the fill of the well contained very few objects, the latest of them being ... 1st-6th c. A.D. |
Containers 106-107. Coins:
16 April 1937 #1-#7 (Dump) ... Mid-1st c. A.D. |
Containers 100-105. Coins:
14 April 1937 #11-#14 ... Late 1st-1st half of 2nd c. A.D. |
Containers 87-99. Coins:
7 April 1937 #30-#31
8 April 1937 #41-#82
9 April 1937 #3-#4 (#4=Dump)
13 April 1937 #1
14 April 1937 #1-#10 ... Late 2nd c. A.D. |
Containers 83-86. Coins:
7 April 1937 #13-#29
8 April 1937 #2-#40
12 April 1937 #2 ... Early 3rd c. A.D. |
Containers 63, 66-82. Coins:
7 April 1937 #1-#12, #32
10 April 1937 #1-#3
12 April 1937 #1 ... Mid-3rd c.-267 A.D. |
Containers 63-67. Coins:
6 April 1937 #4-#5 ... Late 3rd c. A.D. |
Containers 44-62. Coins:
5 April 1937 #3 (disintegrated)
6 April 1937 #2-3, #7
8 April 1937 #1
9 April 1937 #1-#2 ... Early 4th c. A.D. |
Containers 36-40 ... Late 4th c. A.D. |
Containers 23-35. Coins:
6 April 1937 #1, #6 ... 5th. c. A.D. |
Containers 17-22. Coins:
5 April 1937 #1-#2 (disintegrated) ... 2nd half 5th c. A.D. |
Containers 14-16 ... 6th c. A.D. |
Containers 5-13 ... 6th c. A.D. |
Containers 1-4 ... Late 6th c. A.D. |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XVI: PG). Bones discarded.
Only the lower portion of the urn-hole was preserved in bedrock, roughly oval in outline, with a maximum preserved width at the top of 0.70m narrowing ... Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I |
| Eugene Vanderpool ... Grave (adult female). (In some records as Grave XXXI).
The tomb was partly destroyed in antiquity; there are sherds of all periods down to Late Roman (and later) note din the fill immediately above it ... Middle Geometric I |
Big well at 61/ΙΖ.
A well on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus. Diameter 2m ... Ca. 520-475 and shortly after |
Well at 69/ΚΔ (Well G: PG, ELS).
Diameter 0.75m. Fairly but not perfectly evenly cut; no foot-holds in sides. Very little water gathered. The well produced a small amount of pottery, the bulk of it coming ... Protogeometric |
Turkish well at 71/ΚΘ No coins noted ... Turkish |
Rectangular pit at 54/ΛΓ.
The pit's plan is irregular; its measurements approximately 2.00x1.10x1.15m. The wall foundations run a little over a meter deep at 53/ΛΓ-ΛΕ, consist of irregularly shaped and ... Ca. 450-425 B.C. |
| Contents of Pithos Y; probably belonging to sacrificial pyre III.
In northern corner of courtyard. Characteristic pyre pottery in fill of one of two pithoi set into the floor of the courtyard as part ... 400-350 B.C. |
Geometric Pit 58/ΛΒ.
It was started as a well, but after 2 meters crumbling bedrock must have discouraged the diggers. It produced only a few sherds, all of which were kept ... Geometric |
Pocket in bedrock at 62/ΚΑ ... Early 5th c. B.C. |
Filling of a well on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus, dug early in the 1st c. B.C. [construction fill]; in use into the the 2nd c. A.D.[well fill] (H Ms.) No apparent stratification.
Hellenistic ... 2nd c. A.D. |
Hellenistic construction fill mainly of amphoras used as packing between well tiles and bedrock. Estimated Grid ... 1st c. B.C. |
Estimated Grid ... 2nd c. A.D. |
Hellenistic Fill at 70/ΛΣΤ.
Fill in irregular hollow. Pottery resembles Sullan debris, but lack of late duoviri handles suggests deposit slightly predates the sack. Coins
6 March 1937 #1-#4 ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
Tomb at 53-54/ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ-ΛΗ (Late Roman), on the lower north slope of the Areopagus Nb. says ΛΕ-ΛΗ. Deposit list and deposit DB say: ΛΕ-ΛΣΤ ... 350-400 A.D. |
Appears to be use filling from 3rd c. A.D., pre-Herulian into 4th c. or later. Lined with tiles. Coins:
6 May 1937 #1-#2 (disintegrated) ... Early 3rd-early 6th c. |
Drain Trench at 62/ΜΗ.
The presence of a number of fairly well preserved vases of good quality suggested to the excavator the possibility that the cutting might once have contained a burial. No skeletal ... 325-300 B.C. |
| Grave 3 in notebook. Outside Archaic cemetery, inhumation burial. Deposit list says black glaze pithos (P 8922) containing the bones of a child and four small vases. The pithos lay on its side with the ... Last quarter of 6th century B.C. |
| Pit at 74/ΜΑ (1.10x0.58).
Debris filling containing a quantity of animal bones; probably a household refuse pit Animal bones (domestic animals); cow, pig, goat, sheep, hen, dog, and several varieties ... Ca. 525-470 B.C.
480-440 B.C. |
Well at 73/Μ on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter of 0.90m. It seems to have been abandoned because of the very soft stereo that kept falling in from all sides. Many pieces of terracotta ... Ca. 430-420 B.C. |
Well at 73/ΜΓ.
The upper walls were of small stones but changed to tiles at a depth of ca. 12m which suggests that it perhaps was originally built in Late Roman times ... Byzantine |
Well at 66/ΛΖ. Homogeneous fill.
14 stamped amphora handles. Rhodian and Knidian handles find parallels in Middle Stoa building fill. Type 27 D lamp agrees with this date. Fragments of 50 bowls and one ... 225-175 B.C. |
The cistern at 70/ΝΗ and the channel [65/ΞΑ] between chambers 70/ΝΗ and 63/ΞΒ seem to have a uniform dumped filling of first half 2nd c. A.D ... First half of 2nd c. A.D. |
Cistern on lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Two Hellenistic fills with late Hellenistic to Roman fill above.
Use fill characterized by broken water jars (lower fill); contemporary dump (middle fill); ... Early 1st c. B.C. |
Top fill to 1.00m. = dump of late Hellenistic ware mixed with some Roman of 2nd c. to early 3rd. c. Intermediate fill 1.20-2.00m. = dump with tiles and stucco, almost no sherds. Coins:
6 February 1937 ... 2nd-3rd c. A.D. |
Dump, Sullen clean-up. Coins:
9 February 1937 #6-#10
10 February 1937 #11-#13
11 February 1937 #16-#20 ... First quarter 1st c. B.C. |
"Not much earlier than middle fill" Coins:
12 February 1937 #5-#7 ... Fourth quarter of 2nd c. B.C. |
Well at 75/Ε. Dumped debris of Herulian destruction, including much material from the first half of the 3rd c ... 3rd c. A.D. |
Well at 69/ΟΒ (Late 5th c.)
Lower fill dated to 420-400 B.C. in Agora XXX.
There were no use filling and the well was apparently not a success as a water-supply: there was no concentration of water-jars ... 420-400 B.C. |
Well at 72/ΟΔ.
Partially excavated to depth of 8m. Turkish fill in upper 3m. Hellenistic fill mostly of roof tiles and coarse pottery. Coin
12 February 1937 #4 (disintegrated) ... 3rd c. B.C. |
| Komos Cistern at 66/Κ, on the north slope of the Areopagus. Homogeneous fill.
Thirty-four stamped amphora handles. Eight Histiaian tetrobols, dating 170-160 at the earliest, found near top, possibly an ... Last quarter of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd century B.C. |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb Burials ... Myc. III A:1-2 |
Small Mycenaean Chamber Tomb ... Myc. III A:1-2 |
Chamber of water system with one blind tunnel and two cisterns connected by tunnel. Pottery consistent throughout, late Hellenistic. Late 2nd c. B.C.
Ten stamped amphora handles. Most of bowls long-petal ... 100-75 B.C. |
Alison Frantz ... Vases from "Child's Grave" disturbed by the Late Hellenistic cistern. No remains. JP
But see P 27110 ... Late Protogeometric/Early Geometric I |
Grave 3 ... Dark Ages - Byzantine |
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