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| 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. |
| 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. |
Cistern at 60/ΙΕ; bell-shaped cistern with a channel 1.65m high and 4.60m long, leading to a dead end against bedrock. This channel runs north with a slight curve to the east and looks as though it was ... Second half of 3rd c. B.C.-Early 2nd c. B.C. |
Well at 55/ΚΕ
Period of Use dated to the last quarter of 5th c. B.C., Upper fill dated to the same (deposited later) in Agora XXX. Coins
1 April 1938 #10 ... Last quarter of 5th c. B.C. |
Cistern at 70/ΛΣΤ in the northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Part of system with two chambers and well. Homogeneous fill.
13 stamped amphora handles. Latest lamp type 46 B. N 72206 (Ω-344), picked up near ... Second half of 3rd c. - Early 2nd c. B.C. |
Square Peristyle (Square Building) Constructions fill + other (square peristyle area); fragmentary and with some earlier material but in the main, where undisturbed, a homogenous deposit. Coins:
26 May ... Βefore 300 B.C. |
Stoa Construction Fills (n.b. for all Stoa and pre-Stoa fills later than construction filling of Square Peristyle see P-R 6-12)
Over 100 stamped amphora handles in fill. No long-petal bowls, but one fragment ... Before ca. 150 B.C. |
Layer 7 in South Peristyle of court of Roman House Ε. Irregular cutting in bedrock with sand, gravel, fallen bedrock. Some burning ... 275-250 B.C. |
Filling over Floor of Square Peristyle (beneath Stoa).
122 stamped amphora handles. Many parallels with handles from cistern M 21:1. Latest coin dates ca. 200. latest lamp types 33 A and 34 A. Fragment ... 200 B.C. |
Well in Stoa Shop 6 (5th century).
No evidence for period of use. Considerable dumped filling of fragmentary black and plain vases; no figured fragments are preserved, but the small amount of impressed ... 450-425 B.C. |
Well at 21/Ε (beneath Library of Pantainos).
The clearing of the well was abandoned because of a cave-in of the rock walls. Heavy dumped filling, the proportion of fine black table ware high ... Ca. 440-425 B.C. |
Well in Coletti Garden.
Diameter 1m. There were no traces of hand holes in its walls. At 5.2m depth below datum on the S-E side of the shaft, a small underground stream emptied into the well. The stratigraphy ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
Klepsydra: Filling in antechamber, behind the parapet of the Klepsydra. Dated to the time of the rebuilding of the springhouse after the Sullan sack, but containing earlier material. Coins:
31 May 1938 ... Second quarter of 5th c. to middle of 1st c. B.C. |
| Stamped Amphora: Chian ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Amphora: Chian ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Amphora: Chian ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ.
Objects with context as "cistern 44ΙΓ, mouth of 46/ΙΑ" are listed with D 12:2.
The following objects are from "earth", i.e. no context layer:
SS 5334, ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman |
Brown earth with occasiional small stones, quite distinct from upper and lower fills. Pottery mostly Hellenistic with an occasional late Roman sherd scattered through it at all levels. [nbp. 3112] Coins: ... Mostly 1st c. with some Roman. |
Part of the cistern system 44/ΙΓ - 46/ΙΑ - 42/Θ. The filling of the 46/ΙΑ cistern shaft, with the exception of a little Roman at the top, was the same as the bottom fill of 44/ΙΓ - late Hellenistic, running ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C. |
Water channel in north part of Section: Channel Mouth 4. Coins:
22 February 1936 #16-#18
24 February 1936 #1-#2
Twenty stamped amphora handles; type 38 lamp; type 56 A lamp; over half of bowls long-petal ... 120-86 B.C. |
Great Drain South (ca. 70-113, from SW edge of section as far north as the Roman Bath) Hellenistic Sand Fill. Silted-up filling of the southern branch of the Great Drain, abandoned due to some damage at ... 4th. c.-86 B.C. |
Part of cistern system 76/ΝΖ-76/ΝΘ-81/ΝΘ on Kolonos Agoraios with lower dumped filling of 3rd. c. B.C. and upper dumped filling of first half of 1st. c. A.D. Coins:
4 June 1936 #5
5 June 1936 #3
6 June ... 3rd. c. B.C.-1st. c. A.D. |
Coins:
4 June 1936 #5
5 June 1936 #3 Estimated Grid ... 3rd. c. B.C. |
Hellenistic-Early Roman fill over bedrock, along west side of Kolonos Agoraios. Consistent dumped filling; occasionally there is a late Roman fragment intruded from the filling above, but this seems not ... 26-29 February 1936
2-12 March 1936 |
A large chamber cistern filled in the second c. BC when a well (C 9:16) was dug through its floor. Well tiles were run up from the floor of the cistern to just below its neck; a double layer of complete ... Late 2nd c. B.C. |
Stucco, bones, pebble, mosaic about 90% discarded ... Second quarter of 3rd B.C. |
Essentially uniform fill of III-IV c. A.D. with a Byzantine upper fill. Coins:
14 June 1937 #1-#3
15 June 1937 #2
16 June 1937 #1
17 June 1937 #1-#2
18 June 1937 #1-#4
19 June 1937 #1-#4
9 June 1938 #1-#3 ... Late 3rd-mid-4th c. A.D. |
Dumped filling in a well on the west slope of the Areopagus (apparently separate, no mends between them, but differing little in date) the bottom filling apparently thrown in towards the beginning of the ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. and earlier |
A smaller deposit, but with some good household pottery, and red-figure both Meidian and sub-Meidian ... 17-22 May 1939 |
| Hellenistic filling in N.W. corner of Section (39-46/ΙΘ-ΚΓ inclusive). Coins:
14 July 1931 #42, #64
15 July 1931 #6 but grid 42/ΚΔ, #34-#37
16 July 1931 #15-#16
17 July 1931 #4-#12
18 July 1931 #1-#5, ... 4th.-early 2nd. B.C. |
Investigations in the area around the Tholos, especially to the east and south of the building, between it and the Great Drain, and not otherwise specified as deposits.
This "deposit" has no form. It ... various levels and dates |
A well behind the Stoa of Zeus. Noted as the finding place of the bronze head of Nike, B 30.
Two Rhodian stamped amphora handles. Fragments of only two bowls ... 260-210 B.C. |
Nbp. 1740: From the gravel fill at the level of the lowest step, late Hellenistic pottery, higher up (middle to top steps) early Roman. Coins:
23 March 1948 #1-#4
24 April 1948 #1-#33
26 April 1948 #1-#26 ... Late Hellenistic-Early Roman |
A filling lying over a cobbled floor in a house-complex on the lower north slopes of the Areopagus.
Area in front of E-W retaining wall, just above cobble pavement, disturbed by coins and pottery as late ... 375-275 B.C. |
Middle Stoa Building Fill (with filling to S) (See also Κ: H-I-J 14-15 and Λ: K-M 13-14)
This deposit is not definitive and must be considered with the above deposits before details are entered into database; ... To ca. 180 B.C. |
The data in the Deposit Notebook is presented by trench; an attempt is made here to accumulate data from similar layers across the trenches. Subdivisions:
.1=Post Hadrianic cleanup
.2=Marble working waste ... 2nd c. B.C.-3rd c. A.D. |
Material from trenches:
a) 1.00-7.00m. from East End of Stoa.
b) 18.40-21.40m. from East End of Stoa ... 1st c. A.D. |
| Development of the Chian jars, 6th-5th centuries B.C. Photo taken for the booklet on "Amphoras and the ancient wine trade" prepared by Virginia R. Grace ... Horizontal (normal) ... September 1959 |
| Variety of jars dating about 425 B.C. Photo taken for the booklet on "Amphoras and the ancient wine trade" prepared by Virginia R. Grace ... Horizontal (normal) ... September 1959 |
| Development of the Chian jars, 6th-5th centuries B.C. Photo taken for the booklet on "Amphoras and the ancient wine trade" prepared by Virginia R. Grace ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... September 1959 |
| Variety of jars dating about 425 B.C. Photo taken for the booklet on "Amphoras and the ancient wine trade" prepared by Virginia R. Grace ... AMS Horizontal (normal) ... September 1959 |
| Chian amphora ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Chian amphora handle ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Chian amphora ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped Chian amphora ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Detail of stamped handle on Chian amphora ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Amphoras ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Stamped amphora ... AMS Horizontal (normal) |
| Chian amphora ... Detail of neg. no. 82-283 Horizontal (normal) |
Seals and stamps; series 1-6 ... Mary Wyckoff ... Dirty Cartridge Paper Drafting Ink ... 1933 |
| Seals and stamps; series 1-6 ... Mary Wyckoff ... 1933 |
| Jars from a deposit of the 3rd quarter of the 5th c. B.C. front, Medean (P 2375); back row from left, Chian (P 2366, SS 1841) ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jun 2000 |
| Detail of amphora stamp. Chian ... Horizontal (normal) ... 1 Jun 2000 |
| Stamp on base of handle of Chian amphora ... Craig Mauzy ... Cf. negative 3-267. Horizontal (normal) ... 13 Nov 2009 |
Numerous little shallow saucers coarsely made.
Coin:
29 May 1937 #1 ... 4th - Early 3rd B.C. |
Numerous little shallow saucers coarsely made.
Coin:
29 May 1937 #1 ... 4th - Early 3rd B.C. |
Thick arched handle.
Fine red clay, grey at core. South trench II; black earth overlying yellow filling; disturbed. ΠΑΥ (Π,Α,Υ monogram) Leica ... 18 February 1936 |
Part of rim preserved.
Single line stamp.
Hikesios group. Cxt: for Summary cf =SA= pp786--792: strosis Valerian Wall sits on Fill
over Floor, cf =SA= pp842--3 (VG 16.iii.60)*
Par: sim includes SS 09989 ... 29 June 1949 |
Thin rectangular stamp.
Hikesios group. Piers 15-16, east; cutting floor at level of bottom of 8th foundation course; fill over floor of Square Building. Ἡγησίου 742 Leica ... 8 July 1949 |
Many joining fragments preserve neck, most of shoulder, one handle and upper part of the other; lower part of one handle missing; rolled rim.
Pinkish clay, pinkish-buff surface with traces of lighter ... December 1953 |
Narrow rectangular stamp; one line of large crude letters. Late brown fill with Byzantine to early Roman, west of House L. Ματρο[---] (retr) 1869 Leica ... 29 May 1939 |
Single line stamp.
Hikesios group. Cxt: Komos Cistern(VG)* Cistern. Ἡγησίου Leica ... 17 May 1947 |
Rather irregularly made thick handle.
Fine red clay with distinct grey core; light slip; red stain.
Impression from same die as SS 1189; shallow and worn at left end. Dip: red stain*Par: same die as ... 27 April 1933 |
Broad, level handle.
Mediun coarse red clay; peeling light slip. Red earth, mixed classical fill. ΜΕΝΟ Leica ... 10 May 1933 |
| Whole jar mended from many fragments, most of lip and parts of rim and shoulder restored.
Cap. (barley, Lang 1954) 21.950.
Reddish clay.
Stamped on neck; sphinx. At the Cycladic Museum Oct. 2017 to May ... 4 April 1933 |
| Whole jar put together of large fragments, part of side restored.
Cap. (Lang 1954) 21.710.
Red clay.
Stamped on neck; sphinx. Grf: =PIIC= (according to M.L.)*
Prof: PD 1454--64* Well; uniform Greek fill ... 4 April 1933 |
| Whole jar, mended from many fragments; part of neck, rim, shoulder, and upper sides missing and restored.
Cap. (barley, Lang 1954) 21.750.
Buff clay.
Stamped; sphinx. Grf: on neck: 3 horiz lines followed ... 4 April 1933 |
| Jar, mended from many pieces; nearly half the rim and most of one side restored.
Cap. (Lang 1954) 20.250.
Red clay.
Stamped; sphinx. Dip: on neck?* Well; uniform Greek fill. sphinx ML nr 72, color slide ... 4 April 1933 |
Whole jar, mended from many fragments; one handle and most of rim and neck
restored in plaster.
Red clay.
Stamped on neck; sphinx. Well; uniform Greek fill. sphinx Leica ... 4 April 1933 |
The whole preserved of a rather small handle with short, arched upper part.
Sandy micaceous clay with buff surface and grayish core; on the inside of the upper
attachment a sticky deposit, black underneath, ... 4 April 1933 |
| Whole jar with part of rim, most of the neck and shoulders restored.
Cap. (barley, Lang 1954) 21.800.
Red clay.
Kantharos. Well; uniform Greek fill. kantharos Leica, 5-133 ... 4 April 1933 |
Part of neck preserved; the handle nearly round in section; "Hikesios type"(VG).
Light red clay, slip purplish-brown.
Small oblong stamp; retrograde. Rdg: poss =Ma"tro(=? (VG)* Disturbed Turkish area ... 12 February 1934 |
Level, thick.
Fine micaceous clay; large red core; pinkish-buff near surface.
Monogram. Deposit: Deposit H 6 : 4 (?)*
Cxt: BHW*
Dim: W 0.04* Well; (by Head well). ΡΑ (Ρ,Α monogram in O) Leica, 3-281 ... 23 February 1932 |
Slightly arched; thick, ribbed.
Fairly fine clay; dark red with small gray core and thin band of gray near surface; surface yellow with trace of powdery white.
Impression small, neatly set, from somewhat ... 1 March 1932 |
Part of attachment preserved; rather thick, curves close.
Fine clay; light red, distinct gray core; white slip.
Impression of thumb inside neck, amde at time of attaching. Large letters; clear. From ... 12 March 1932 |
Large part of handle preserved; cylindrical in section.
Red clay; thick cream slip, peeling off.
Narrow rectangle impression. Dte: 1c BC(VG)*
Cxt: [ ... ] group =ST=, 50--53/=KD-KST=(VG)* In front of retaining ... 1st century B.C. |
Dte: middle to 3/4 3c BC* "Dionysion", in shallow trench cut as drain. Ἱκεσίου Leica ... Middle to third quarter of 3rd century B.C. |
Small rectangular stamp, set diagonally, broken at right.
Hikesios group. Channel of cistern. Ἱκεσίο̣[υ] Leica ... 1 March 1938 |
Part of rim preserved.
Hikesios group. Brookhaven test (1957), no. 17.
Dte: 3c BC(VG xii.82)*Smp: Brookhaven Test, 1957, nr 17* Cistern. Ἱκεσίου Leica ... 12 May 1938 |
| One handle and tip of foot missing; long neck, rolled rim; no groove on neck.
Capacity: (barley, Lang 1954) 23.790.
Orange-brown micaceous clay.
Stamp on neck; graffito on shoulder. Dim: LH 0.019(VG)*Class: ... 6 May 1938 |
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