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A total of 79 ostraka was recovered from Room 5 of the Classical Building.
More of this deposit was excavated in the 2021 season on the opposite side of the scarp of Wall R, up against the face of Wall ... 500-475 B.C. |
| Deposit of terracottas, molds and pottery in a shallow pit sloping downward from north to south. This deposit was located beneath a layer of fill under a Late Roman plaster floor (Lots ΒΕ 2093-2095). The ... 1st c. A.D. |
| Marcie Handler ... A deposit of six amphorae and one micaceous water jar was excavated between 20 June and 6 July 2005 in the area north of Wall K. The neck and one handle of one of the amphorae (BZ 1213) had been poking ... Ca. 1st c. A.D. |
| In NE corner of Room D. In a Byzantine vessel=P 34464.
The position of the vessel in the corner of the room suggests that the burial was made after the construction of Byzantine Walls G and E. This type ... 10th-11th c. A.D. |
| Terracotta deposit in SW corner of Room K and E of Roman Wall L. Roman layer of red, compact earth.
Baskets 50,52,54. Coins:
18 July 2002 #1282
19 July 2003 #1295 ... 4th c. A.D. |
| Marcie Handler ... The remnants of a disturbed pyre in a layer of dumped Hellenistic fill. The fill was found in the area on top of and east of the eastern wall of the Classical Commercial Building at its north end. Fragmentary ... Ca. 225 B.C. |
| Marcie Handler ... The contents of this Hellenistic cistern shaft were excavated in a series of layers: the preserved top of the shaft, six layers in the shaft and the fill within the tunnel. At the bottom of the shaft on ... POU: Mid-3rd c. BC
Dumped fill: after 225 BC |
| Marcie Handler ... The Pyre was revealed in a layer of 4th c. fill in the north end of Room 6, just south of Wall 8. Room 6 is defined by the street wall (Wall A) on the west, Wall 7 on the east, Wall 9 on the south (preserved ... 4th c. B.C. |
Kevin Daly ... This deposit has only one object, are you sure this is a deposit? ... 525 B.C. |
| Brian Martens ... It was partially excavated during the 2012 and 2013 seasons. The tomb, located at the center of Room III in the NE area of section ΒΖ, was found under fill surrounding perpendicular mid-to late 6th c ... LHIIIA |
| Brian Martens ... Mycenaean Chamber Tomb J 1:11, located in the area north of Wall K, was partially excavated during the 2014 season. At this point the full western extent of the chamber has not been located because of ... LHIIIA |
| Marcie Handler ... This deposit is a Mycenaean cist grave with two cover slabs, a type of burial described by Immerwahr in Agora XIII (pp. 103-104). Cist graves appear side by side with chamber tombs in the Mycenaean cemeteries ... LHIIB-LHIIIA:1 |
| Brian Martens ... Located in the southern section of Room I, now bound by the scarp of Wall U at the north,, the scarp of Wall L at the east,, and a modern pit at the south. At its now low elevations, excavated in the 2015 ... Third quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
Well West of N-S Street. Coin
2 August 1982 #704 ... Ca. 115-75 |
| Classical Building II, Layer 7B ... 1st c. A.D. |
| Sacrificial Pyre I, Classical Building II.
The pyre was set through the original floor level of the northern room of the Classical Building and apparently is the remainder of a ritual conducted when the ... Ca. 375-350 B.C. |
Small pit north of Wall C (appr. 0.50 E-W x 0.35m N-S). Coins:
11 August 1994 #1125-#1127 ... 3rd c. B.C. |
| Coins:
19 July 1995 #1254
20 July 1995 #1252
21 July 1995 #1268 Three additional finds, A 4916, IL 1909, T 4387, are from outside the well proper and not in the finds list but cf. pp. 7243, 7245 and section ... 4th-12th c. A.D. |
| John Camp ... Burial north of Roman temple, E. of polygonal wall.
The tomb, as preserved, consisted of the cinerary urn, which stood in an upright position, its upper part damaged by later disturbance. It contained ... Late Helladic IIIC Late-Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean |
| Excavation of this pit began in 1995, tentatively identified as a pyre. This proved to be so with continued excavation in 1996. The deposits J 2:8 and J 2:9 were combined to become J 2:9. Miniature vessels ... Ca. 300 B.C. |
| David Scahill ... Roman temple north. Adult male inhumation. Pit tomb, partially stone-lined ... Late Mycenaean or Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean |
| Kevin Daly ... Grave in north room of Roman temple, west of well J 2:4; adult inhumation ... Late Helladic IIIC Late-Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean |
| Classical Pyre between floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II.
Below floor at 51.66 7masl. Broken pyre pots in fill of ash and carbon, from 51.541-51.513, resting on next floor at 51.513 masl, next ... Ca. 400-390 B.C. |
| Hellenistic Pyre below packed clay floors of Room 2; west of Late Roman wall extension, below tile platform terracotta drain installation, bordered on the north by bedding foundation stones of crosswall ... Ca. 300 B.C. |
| A well at the northeast corner of Classical Building, behind back wall. Dumped fill appears to have occurred as a single event as there are joining sherds throughout.
POU date ca. first half 5th c. B.C.; ... 5th c. B.C. |
| Pyre against north face of polygonal wall, Room 2, Classical Building II. No floor preserved above, but the pyre is below floor level 51.820masl, preserved just to the east and above patchy floor with ... Ca. 275-260 B.C. |
| A closely compacted group of 431 bronze coins found at ca. 52.50m., against the east brick wall. No sign of a container. Others dribbled down against the channel wall in a restricted area to as deep as ... Late Roman |
| Marcie Handler ... Located in the south section of Room E in the Byzantine Building east of the North-South Road. The uppermost 1.5 meters of well lining was built of well-coursed stones (some reused marble blocks) and tiles ... 12th c. A.D. |
| David Scahill ... At northeast corner of Classical Building II; on south side of dromos of Tomb K 2:5, and separated from it by ca. 0.6m of bedrock. Chamber cut through bedrock. The northeast corner of chamber defined ... LHIII A:1 |
| Matt McCallum ... Plaster lined cistern. The cistern seems to have been bottle shaped; the walls are narrower at the preserved top, which is broken along its entire circuit, and gradually widen until about a third of the ... 12th c. AD |
| Marcie Handler ... Fill within the drain from the basin on the west side of Roman Room B through Wall A.
After we removed the fill within the basin on the west side of Roman Room B (BZ XXVII p. 5325), we began excavating ... Late Roman |
Filling under North-South Road surface, apparently to raise the level of the road as thickness of fill varies depending on height of road. Fill sits on earliest, cobbled road layer. The road surface set ... Mid-6th c. B.C. |
| Marcie Handler ... This pyre was found in the fill under Pyre J 2:23. Unfortunately, no floor surface was found between the two pyres. There were no complete vessels in this pyre. The sherds of the pyre vessels were mixed ... 275-250 B.C. |
| Mike Laughy ... This pyre was found within an otherwise mostly sterile fill directly under a white floor surface in the southern section of Area IV. It was located ca. 0.50m. east of a similar deposit, Pyre J 2:25. The ... 4th c. B.C. |
| Marcie Handler ... It was situated in the NW corner of Room 3 in the Classical Commercial Building, just S of Wall 11, the cross-wall that divides Room 3 from Room 4 to the north. The pyre pots were found surrounded by ... Late 4th c. B.C. |
| Handler ... Found in an area of disturbed fill north of a floor surface in Room 4 of the Classical Commercial Building. The floor surface (n. 3 on the west side of Room 4) was preserved at 52.503-52.544 masl., and ... 2nd half 4th c. B.C. |
Classical commercial building, room 3, against south wall. Small fragments of pottery dispersed in fill overlying two floor levels (at 51.897 and 51.941 masl). Five objects of pyre type: ribbon-handled ... 4th c. B.C. |
| Marcie Handler ... Pyre under floor no. 9 in the center of Room 4. It was adjacent to the southern face of Wall 4, but at lower elevation than the lowest course of the wall foundation (which was found at 52.250 masl.), suggesting ... 375-350 B.C. |
| Marcie Handler ... Cist grave for two infants. The grave was cut into a sterile rocky layer on its southern and western sides, and a sterile fill layer on its northern and eastern sides. No obvious grave marker was present, ... Early Iron Age |
| Coins:
16 June 1981 #89
17 June 1981 #94-#95, #100 (not a coin).
19 June 1981 #103-#104, #335-#336
23 June 1981 #111-#112 ... 9th-13th c. A.D. |
| Sacrificial Pyre II, Classical Building II.
Found right beneath the stuccoed channel built for sluicing in the 1st c. A.D., and must have been partly disturbed when the channel was constructed. It may ... Ca. 250 B.C. |
Road SE of altar, below 51.56m.
In 1981, p. 1883: "A single pass, ca. 0.03m. thick and we hit another surface, at 51.56m. which we take as Layer XV. Fairly loose gravelly fill under surface, sandy, greenish ... 1st c. B.C. |
| Julia Shear ... Burial. Roman Temple south half, in fill south of temple crosswall and norh of polygonal wall, layer 37a.
Small, roughly circular pit. The diameter of the pit appeared to be only slightly greater than ... Late Helladic IIIC Late-Final Mycenaean/Submycenaean |
Area IV, surface fill. Group of 5 bronze coins corroded into one lump. Coins:
20 July 1981 #302-#306
(Anonymous Byzantine Coins (Bronze) 976-1030/1035 A.D., Cf. DOC III, pt. 2, p. 649ff (Class A2) ... 976-1030/1035 A.D. |
| David Scahill ... Beneath toichobate floor level in Room 1 of Classical Building II, against the south ashlar wall, ca. 1.50m. east of the southwest corner of the building. Deposit of broken pyre pots in small pit, 1.00m ... Ca. 325 B.C. |
| David Scahill ... Burial in Geometric well (J 3:8), in Classical Building II, Room I, next to south ashlar wall. "No grave goods!"
ADDENDA: J. Papadopoulos later associated P 34449 and P 34450 to that grave. (Cf. Agora ... Geometric |
Represents excavated levels II-III ... 275-150 B.C. |
Represents excavated level IV. Coins:
2 July 1971 #851-#856 ... 300-275 B.C. |
Represents excavated levels V-IX. Coins:
5 July 1971 #857 ... Late 5th c.-300 B.C. |
| E.D. Townsend Vermeule ... Protogeometric Grave no. 2 at North of Temple of Ares (Grave XXXVII). Rectangular stone-lined pit in filling of Mycenaean chamber tomb (J 7:2); the skeleton of a boy. Cf. P 21275 which is from the "preliminary ... Middle Protogeometric |
E.D. Townsend Vermeule ... PG grave no. 1. Mycenaean Chamber tomb under Temple of Ares. No remains, but cf. P 21275. Cf. under J 7:2 (PG grave no. 1), Agora XIII, pp. 183-190 ... Protogeometric |
| Mycenaean Chamber Tomb under north side of Temple of Ares, towards its west end.(1951).
The tomb had a hasty and unfinished appearance oddly at variance with its long history and the quality of the pottery ... 1st: Myc IIB-IIA:1-2, 2nd: Myc. IIIC:1 (1450-1200 B.C.) |
Fifth century lekythos deposit in area of Mycenaean Tomb. Lot Η 81a ... 5th c. B.C. |
Byzantine Building: Room XV (loose black filling). Coins:
12 April 1933 #5-#15
13 April 1933 #1 ... Byzantine |
| Rebecca Wood Robinson ... Mycenaean Grave C. Lisa's list mentions also Grave D ... Myc. IIIA 1:2 |
| Mycenaean Grave F.
It seemed to be more as a collection of bones and offerings, presumably swept aside to make room for later burials; they are east of and slightly higher than children's graves A and ... Myc. IIIA |
| Mycenaean Double Grave (Graves A and B).
Grave A was in Layer II. We laid a skull and a few other bones, three vases and a stone bead. We have dug to a maximum of about 0.06m below the top of Layer II ... Myc. IIIA/B |
| Disturbed Mycenaean chamber tomb.
It was the first Mycenaean burial found in the Agora. It is situated about 20m due south of Tomb VII, only a few meters beyond the south edge of the Augustan foundation ... Myc. IIIA (1st half of 14th c.) |
Coins:
12 April 1933 #1-#2 ... Early 12th c. A.D. |
Filling in Classical Floor of Agora, to the north of the Temple of Ares; possibly a disturbed pyre ... Early 4th c. B.C. |
| Rebecca Wood Robinson ... Damaged Protogeometric grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XL).
Small corner only preserved, cut in part into the filling of the Submycenaean Grave J 9:2. In this corner, and spilling into the disturbed upper ... Late Protogeometric |
| Evelyn L. Smithson ... Submycenaean grave (E.L. Smithson: Grave XXXIV). The skeleton of a 30 year's old female ... Submycenaean |
A circular pit below Byzantine floor. It Is 1.28m deep and its bottom rests upon virgin soil, a gray clay formed by the disintegrated native rock. It is constructed for about 0.30m at the top with tiles, ... 12th c. A.D. |
| Plundered Chamber Tomb. (Tomb XII). A few meters SE of the great white marble altar. The chamber is an irregular rectangle, oriented roughly N-S, with dromos leading in at a very gentle slope from the ... LH III A |
Irregular depression in bedrock (ca. 7x5m), ca. 2m deep; area south of E-W Late Roman wall. Dumped filling apparently intended to level off the area. Coins:
11 March 1952 #10
12 March 1952 #1-#5
13 March ... Ca. 400-325 B.C. |
Coins:
8 April 1936 #13
1 May 1936 #21 ... Byzantine-Turkish |
Fill to 6.50m., masses of stone, animal bones and coarse pottery with some unfinished poros sculpture at 6.50m. - a dump of early 3rd c. ... At 6.50m. begins use filling with numerous BHWJs and other water ... Late 1st c. to early 3rd cent. and of 4th and 5th cents |
Empty to 4.00m. From there to 9.20m. much coarse pottery, stucco fragments, animal bones, lead defixiones. ... The presence of fragments of stelae and architectural members near bottom point to dumped ... Late 2nd-early 3rd c. A.D. |
| Hole in bedrock; dumped filling used in leveling.
Probably a natural water line, tending to wash out, has been cut back for various purposes, and finally all filled in to make level bedding for 4th c., ... Ca. 350-270 B.C. |
Water deposit in Polygonal Drain (43-44/Γ-Ζ and martyra)immediately south of the south foundations of the Middle Stoa. Early branch of the original course of Great Drain. P 2248 added to this deposit by ... Ca. 420-390 B.C. |
| Late Geometric well ... Late Geometric |
A pit running E-W under Holy Apostle St., about 1.20m. square and 0.90m. deep. Built with stones about the size of a man's head. Coins:
24 April 1935 #12-#13 ... 18th c. |
Located just north of the stepped retaining wall between the Great Drain and the Poros Monument (Propylon).
Short period of use; dumped filling above, mostly cemetery debris ... Early Protogeometric |
Located in the NE corner of the early peribolos. Probably originally 1.00-1.50m. deeper, the bedrock above having been cut back in late times. Scanty pottery remains; some evidence for a period of use ... Ca. 600-570 B.C. |
One of two late wells [the other at 59/ΙΗ] cutting the line of the east wall of the peribolos and the line of the Byzantine enclosure. The shafts of the two were close together and in their upper parts ... Turkish |
Upper part collapsed (diameter 1.25m). Uniform fill with water jars. Sorted June 1956. 4 tins thrown out. Joins from all boxes, but pithos fragments and water jars mostly from boxes 6-16 ... 750-700 B.C. |
Pocket in bedrock behind stepped retaining wall ... 7th c. B.C. |
Apparently an unsuccessful well. P 37220-P 37224 (Κ 4519-Κ 4523) Catalogued on October 2012 (JPK, SS)
P 37741-P 37742 (Κ 4549-Κ 4550) Catalogued on April 2017 (BL) ... Protogeometric |
Well E (diameter 1.10-1.20m) just outside the northwest corner of the southwest Fountain House.
Dug initially as a pit (J 15:2) partially covered by an early Roman wall ... Early 7th c. B.C. |
Above well at 48/ΙΕ (J 15:1) ... Early Roman |
Red fill with burning over south part of Heliaea. Post Herulian Metal- Worker's establishment. Coins:
20 May 1953 #1-#2
4 May 1953 #1 P 30199 (Κ 4282), B 1544-1546 (Κ 4281, Κ4283-4284) catalogued on May ... Late 3rd. c. A.D. |
Clay pit with clear light yellow clay thoroughly suitable for pottery making ... 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
A tiled well with two periods of use, Byzantine and Late Roman.
Some coarse Byzantine pottery from the upper part. from the lower part, pre-Herulian pottery, lamps and figurines. Also ΑΡ 221 (A 1202) the ... 3rd c. A.D. (before 267 A.D.)
11th-12th c. A.D. |
Coins:
20 March 1947 #1 Estimated Grid ... 11th-12th c. A.D. |
Estimated Grid ... Mid-3rd c. A.D. |
| Upper mixed dumped fill (last quarter 3rd c.-4th c.) with Roman POU below 10.40m. Coins:
16 February 1937 #1 (disintegrated)
17 February 1937 #1 (disintegrated)
8 April 1937 #5-#10 (dump)
9 April 1937 ... 2nd half of 1st c.-first half of 3rd c. A.D. |
Pit A lies tangent to Pit B (J 18:4) and cuts into its loose fill.
Small deposit ... Second half of 5th c. B.C. |
| Thamneus' Cellar, a storage cellar on the north slope of the Areopagus. Lower filling of mid-6th c. B.C., upper filling of last quarter of 6th c. B.C ... 6th c. B.C. |
Small deposit including red figured fragments ... Second and third quarters of 4th c. B.C. |
Scanty filling over the top of a pit. Selected fragments. Black figure fragments ... Late 6th to early 5th c. B.C. |
Scanty remains of use fill in lowest 0.30m. with Byzantine dump above ... 400-350 B.C. |
Well on the north slope of the Areopagus. Unfinished, probably because of hardness of rock, and refilled at once, perhaps with sanctuary dump and with collapsed rock from the shaft itself.
Diameter 1.15m ... 3rd quarter of the 7th c. B.C. |
| Dimensions: 1.10m in diameter and 1,36m deep.
It could have been started as a well but then abandoned at a shallow depth (perhaps due to Persian invasion of Athens). BG vessels (including one inscribed ... 500-470 B.C. |
| David Scahill ... Below packed clay floors in Room 2 of Classical Building II; bordered on east and south sides by polygonal cross wall and back wall extension for Classical Building. Late Roman wall and drain installation ... LHIII A:1 |
Tile lined bothros with field stone collar. Coins:
19 June 1992 #818-#819 ... 12th-13th c. A.D. |
| Coins:
23 July 1992 #854
27 July 1992 #861-#864, #866, #868, #872
28 July 1992 #867, #874
29 July 1992 #869-#871, #873, #875
31 July 1992 #877-#884, #887-#888
3 August 1992 #890-#896
4 August 1992 #897-#900, ... Roman-Byzantine |
| The remains of a pyre disturbed by the construction of Wall 106. The compact, light brown soil contained some ash and bone and 5 nearly complete pots or saucers ... First half 3rd. c. B.C. |
| The pit consists of an unlined, circular shaft measuring 1.10m. in diameter and at least 2.23m. in depth. The sides of the shaft have roughly cut hand-/foot-holds at irregular intervals and locations ... Late Roman to end of 4th c. A.D. |
| Tom Milbank ... An unlined and relatively narrow (ca. 0.82m. in diameter) well cut through hard-pack and bedrock. Although three periods of use can be discerned in the stratigraphy of the well below a depth of ca. 5.47m., ... Middle Geometric I |
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