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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. |
| Square Byz. Well South of Middle Stoa Pier 21 (Iliad Well) Estimated Grid ... Byzantine |
| Rubbish Dump in mouth of abandoned well in Tholos Trench F, Kitchen. Filled with ash, charcoal, broken pottery, roof tiles.
Also from Trench L.
13 March 2014 by Ann Steiner
The deposit has four components ... Ca. 425-400 B.C. |
South Stoa II Construction Fill.
About 85 stamped amphora handles, many with parallels in building fills of Middle Stoa and Stoa of Attalos. Fragments of long-petal bowls confirm date after mid-2nd c ... To ca. 140 B.C. |
Well associated with the Tholos, with scanty use fill but primarily dumped filling. Coins:
5 April 1934 #1-#4
10 April 1934 #1-#2
11 April 1934 #1
12 April 1934 #1
18 April 1934 #1-#2
19 April 1934 #1-#5 ... Ca. 350-294 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 |
Burnt Layer inside retaining wall of Middle Stoa Terrace (Θ) and NW Corner of Middle Stoa, burnt debris inside terrace retaining wall (Ζ). Coins Ζ: Coins Θ:
1 June 1951 ... Mid-3rd c. A.D. |
Well to N of Nymphaeum at 115/ΙΣΤ. A good water supply but no evidence for a period of use.
Exceptionally heavy dumped filling, including much fine tableware, many wine- jar fragments and other objects ... Ca. 420-400 B.C. |
No period of use. Below the upper (Early Roman) dump extending down to ca. 6.10m. was a dumped fill of broken pottery in great quantity, including a high proportion of red-figured fragments. Masses of ... Ca. 430-400 B.C.
Late 1st c. B.C.-mid 1st c. A.D. |
Well at the southeast corner, almost on the line of the east-west street. Upper Fill: Late Roman dumped fill.
Lower Fill: Dark Age: ca. 7th c. A.D.
Coin
30 March 1939 #34 ... 7th-Late 6th century |
| Herulian Debris in a house on the lower slopes of the Hill of the Nymphs: House P = South House; Room 2 = Dining Room; Room 3 = Kitchen; Room 18; Room 23; Room 24. Coins:
9 August 1947 #1-#37, #47-#49 ... Mid 3rd c. A.D. |
Well West of N-S Street. Coin
2 August 1982 #704 ... Ca. 115-75 |
Cistern at 63/ΛΑ (part of cistern system 63/ΛΑ-65/ΜΑ-70/ΛΣΤ, consisting of two chambers and a well). Roman upper fill with modern cesspool fill above. Channel finds: MC 517, SS 8078.
Only datable object ... 300-195 B.C. |
Roman Dump/Cesspool ... Second half 1st c.-1st half 2nd c. A.D. |
Well 8: Archaic. On the northwest slope of the Acropolis.
Depth from surface of rock, -16.10m.
Diameter top ca. 0.90; bottom ca 0.80m. Water level, ca. -9m ... Late 6th - early 5th c. B.C. |
Well C - Passage, belongs with II - Brick Shaft. All dumped fills. No objects catalogued from Well C of section ΟΑ. One object (I 5422) catalogued from modern fill in shaft, one from dump (I 5545). Coins: ... 2nd c. A.D.- Byzantine |
Lower fill in shaft; upper and lower drain filling; shaft, in upper chambers. Coins:
31 March 1938 #1
9 May 1939 #1-#2
20 June 1939 #1 Estimated Grid ... Late 2nd-earliest 3rd c. A.D. |
"Debris Pit" beneath starting line in Panathenaic Way.
Dug as
Trench B (1971), pp. 1631-1649 (notebook not seen, PF);
finds record both Layer 28 and beneath Layer 28.
Trench I, pit 16a, (1973), pp. 3010-3022 ... 2 August 1971
4-6 July 1973
27 June-11 July 1980 |
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. |
Well at 45/Θ (Skytha Well) near the north side of the market square. No period of use was distinguished, since it was impossible to clear the well to the bottom. The considerable quantity of dumped filling ... Ca. 460-440 B.C. |
Cistern-chamber on the northwest side of Kolonos Agoraios, 10 to 12m west of the end of the Hellenistic Building. Dimensions at bottom 2.50m x 2.75m.
The west chamber of a cistern system composed of two ... Use filling early 1st-2nd c. B.C. |
Well in Court J, House of Greek Mosaic ... Early 4th c. A.D. |
Well at 30/ΛΣΤ Coins (none useful)
25 May 1938 #3-#6
26 May 1938 #3-#4 ... Early 3rd cent and of 4th-6th cent. A.D. |
| Well in East Colonnade of Roman House H. Diameter 0.80m, lined with field stones set in mortar. used as a cistern as well.
No useful pottery dates. Capital from colonnade A 3866 and part of shaft found ... 29 July 1970 |
| Well in West Colonnade of Roman House H. Covered by a large handsome marble well-head, apparently reused. Cut through bedrock. Diameter ca. 1.20m, water at -3.60m.
Two distinct POU fills. One at ca. -4.50m ... June-August 1970 |
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. |
Cistern System: Stoa Terrace at Piers 11-12. Probably abandoned at the time of the construction of the Square Peristyle ... 350-325 B.C (?) |
Great Drain and Pit at 55-56/ΙΗ-ΙΖ (Roman Group K). Coins
8 June 1933 #4
9 June 1933 #5-#6
10 June 1933 #1-#12, #13-#16
13 June 1933 #1-#25, #26-#29
14 June 1933 #3-#4
15 June 1933 #1-#5, #6-#8
17 June ... Mid 3rd century |
Well at 73/Δ Coins:
24 April 1939 #1 (stuck to sherd in bottom container) A box (4B) and three tins of pottery have been kept (T5-T7). The rest discarded ... Byzantine |
| 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. |
| Located at the bifurcation of the Panathenaic Way and West Road.Byzantine fill (9th-10th century) in upper 5.70m. with a series of Classical to Hellenistic accumulations below. Coins:
10 July 1971 #861 ... 14 June-27 July 1971 |
Represents excavated levels V-IX. Coins:
5 July 1971 #857 ... Late 5th c.-300 B.C. |
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. |
Well in Byzantine Room 9. Excavation of the well terminated at 49.00m. due to cave-in danger. Topped by a stone sill and marble putael, the upper part of well is of Byzantine-period stone masonry; lower ... Byzantine |
| 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. |
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. |
Byzantine Well at 66/ΛΑ.
Semi-curbed well at the west wall of the Byzantine room.
From the mouth of the well, a few brown glazed sherds ... Byzantine |
Well dug through N 18:1 (cistern at 79/ΜΗ) on the lower north slopes of Areopagus; the cistern was the northern chamber of a system; the southern chamber is at 84/ΝΣΤ (N 19:1).
A single dumped deposit ... 3rd-4th c. A.D. |
| Dumped filling of late 2nd c. B.C.; Roman Group F, dumped filling of second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. on the lower northeast slope of the Areopagus.
Diameter at bottom -3.20m Upper fill: Latest coins ... Second quarter to end of 1st c. B.C. |
Dumped fillings thrown in during second quarter of 1st c. B.C. containing mostly debris resulting from Sulla's sack in 86 B.C.
Agora XXIX, p. 464: Four fills distinguished during excavations ... but seemingly ... Late 2nd c. and early 1st c. B.C. POU; 110-75 B.C. |
Well on south slope of Kolonos Agoraios. Use filling of late 1st. to late 2nd. c. A.D.; dumped filling of 4th. c. A.D. Coins:
24 April 1937 #2
27 April 1937 #6-#12
28 April 1937 #2
29 April 1937 #2
8 May ... 1st.-4th c. A.D. |
Cistern system, 88/ΝΓ (shaft and passages). Apparently a dumped filling of Roman times, drawn mostly from some Hellenistic deposit. Coins:
31 March 1937 #1-#5
1 April 1937 #4-#5
3 April 1937 #1-#2
5 April ... Hellenistic and Roman, 4th c. A.D. |
| Large tile-lined well in SW Bath, Room A4. The top had been sealed with ca. 1.30m of concrete, and the floor to carry the hypocaust columns of the room in Phase C had been carried over it.
The well was ... Late 2nd-early 1st c. B.C. |
Furnace Dump from N. Hypocaust in Bath to East of Poros Building. Coins:
26 March 1948 #4-#8
27 March 1948 #1-#3
29 March 1948 #2-#7
1 April 1948 #2-#3
3 April 1948 #14-#15
7 April 1948 #16-#27
8 April ... Second half 3rd c.-first half 4th c. A.D. |
Investigations to the south of the Metroon, in the passageway between the Metroon and the Tholos; accumulated layers, from the Geometric and earlier periods to the 3rd and 2nd centuries B.C.
Cf. Hesperia ... Geometric to second c. B.C. |
A well with POU 7th-8th c. A.D. and 10th c. dump. Coins:
19 May 1933 #14
20 May 1933 #3
22 May 1933 #1-#2
23 May 1933 #2
24 May 1933 #1
30 May 1933 #1 Subdivisions:
.1=Upper fill
.2=Lower fill ... 19 May-7 June 1933 |
A well about 2.00m. SE of the Tholos precinct wall. The presence of the water-clock strengthens the probability, suggested by its location, that the well served one of the public buildings in the neared ... Ca. 410-390 B.C. |
This cutting was filled in at the time Road 6 was laid. Homogeneous dumped fill.
This deposit represents fill which was brought in at the time Road 6 at the west end of the Middle Stoa was laid to fill ... Ca. 480 B.C. |
Royal Stoa, N. Annex building fill, N Trench, Layer 7 ... 4th quarter of 5th 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. |
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. |
With cistern at 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ (P 10:2), two chambers connected by a passage.
18/Π went out of use first and was closed off from 17/ΟΕ-ΟΣΤ; filled up at one time with material dating between 350 and 300 B.C ... 325-285 B.C. |
Tiled Well in Square Building Foundations, equipped with evenly spaced hand-holds, with a good supply of water. There was no period of use represented and the dumped fill consisted mostly of chunks of ... Third quarter of 4th c. B.C. |
Tile well at 52/ΛΣΤ, in the northern late Roman building in the room with the apse. The top was covered by a large stone, and the well had never been filled after the last period of use. water stood to ... Late 1st (?) cent.-early 3rd to 6th cent. |
Cistern at 53/ΝΕ, bottle-shaped, stucco-lined, in the east aisle of the peristyle of Roman House H (courtyard of Greek House G, just west of andron).
Lower diameter 2.73m.
Homogenous fill all apparently ... Into early 2nd century B.C. |
| Well below Stoa Gutter opposite Pier 1.
Heavy dumped filling remarkable among Agora well-deposits both for the high quality and the good conditions of pottery of all sorts.
It represents the stock of a ... Ca. 520-490 B.C. |
| Well below Stoa Terrace Fountain.
Heavy dumped filling, including a great variety of figured and plain wares.
Never completed in antiquity because of hard bedrock. Estimated Grid ... 575-550 B.C. |
Northern Manhole to Water Channel [R 9-10], East of Shop 14 ... 2nd c. B.C. |
Well East of Stoa Room 11; no appreciable change in pottery top to bottom; dumped fill of Augustan times. Coins:
4 May 1950 #1-#3
15 May 1950 #1 Estimated Grid ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
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. |
A well outside the market square to the southeast, 20m west of the Panathenaic Way; Modern fill in upper 1.65m. with Early Roman dumped fillings below. Coins:
9 May 1939 #37 (dirt pile)
10 May 1939 #53 ... Late 1st c. B.C.-early 1st c. A.D. |
Tile-lined well at T/7-13/10,ca. 0.75m in diameter, top at ca. 64.90. Three tiles per circuit, ca. 0.63m high each; 10 rows of tiles. No POU.
Fill was largely dumped earth of the 3rd and 4th c. A.D., apparently ... Late 3rd to 5th century A.D. |
Well D: Archaic
Well on the northwest slope of the Acropolis. Debris filling with scanty pottery remains; most of the pottery is earlier than the lower limit. Diameter at top ca. 1.20m; bottom ca. 1.10m ... End of 6th c. B.C. |
Well 19: Latest Mycenaean. Near Klepsydra. Diameter mouth 1.25-1.35m., narrowing about a third of the way down and becoming rectangular, 0.90-1.0 to a side. Muddy at m; water collecting rapidly at 8.m ... Late Mycenaean |
| A well in the courtyard (Room 8) of a Byzantine House of Period II. The well was covered by a large squared poros wellhead and a marble puteal (apparently neither inventoried). Within the well shaft, the ... 14 July-9 August 1989
2-13 July 1990 |
| Tile-lined well. Excavation of the well terminated at 47.548m. due to cave-in danger. Cf. MC 1499 and L 5995 found in vicinity of well; also ST 897, ST 943 and MC 1384 plus coin N 12048 (ΒΕ-1403) found ... 15 June 1993
28 June 1993
23-30 July 1993 |
"Red Fill" (extending to bedrock or near, over most of area). Mainly first century after Christ with later disturbance. Coins:
17 April 1936 #10-#13
18 April 1936 #1
20 April 1936 #13-#17
21 April 1936 ... 1st-2nd c. A.D. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
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. |
| 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. |
Well at 75/Ε. Dumped debris of Herulian destruction, including much material from the first half of the 3rd c ... 3rd c. A.D. |
Baskets 22-53 (containers 21-47). Abandonment of cistern. Includes finds from NW channel leading out of 84/ΝΣΤ (containers 50-51). The following objects, although listed in deposit notebook as being from ... 125-86 B.C. |
Coins:
19 May 1937 #1-#10
24 May 1937 #1
25 May 1937 #6
26 May 1937 #1-#2 ... Late 1st.-late 2nd. c. A.D. |
| Listed in notebook as at 6/ΛΗ but later found to be at 12/ΛΗ.
Originally B 16:1.
Large cistern distinguished by a short (1.75m) blind tunnel running SW from its floor, and a shallow (ca. 0.80m originally) ... Ca. 150 B.C. |
According to dates of finding: 'Mixed Greek and Roman'. |
Square pit in bedrock southwest of the Hephaisteion. Many marble chips from the construction of the temple of Hephaestus were found here together with a large quantity of pottery and other objects ... Ca. 450 B.C.
Ca. 390-380 B.C. |
Well cut through cistern at 6/ΝΕ (C 9:7).
The stele I 3244 in position in the cistern over the mouth of the well is listed with the cistern deposit C 9:7. Coins:
26 February 1936 #2-#4
27 February 1936 ... A.D. 1st |
(Roman Group J). The upper fill to a depth of ca. 16.00m. was of earth scooped up elsewhere and thrown in ... The latest piece noted from this fill was a TC fragment dated late 4th to 5th(?) c. BC. From ... 2nd.-3rd. c. A.D. |
House R, fill under drain tiles and fillings associated with house K in industrial area, including what was C 19:15, plus C 19:16 and
C 19:17.
a) House built as dwelling in second half of 5th.c.
b) Used ... Ca. 5th and 4th c. B.C. |
Tiled well (diameter 0.78, water level -3.50m) at 65/Κ (64/Κ) with poros wellhead. Built as early as 2nd c. Post-Herulian filling.
Tiled well, tiles 0.60m high ... 4th-5th c. A.D. |
| Includes finds from layer II and III of cistern passage. Coins:
1 April 1937 #1 (east end of passage)
14 April 1937 #2-#8
15 April 1937 #1-#7
16 April 1937 #1 ... Second half 1st c. A.D. |
Includes finds from layer II and III of cistern passage. Coins:
1 April 1937 #1 (east end of passage)
8 April 1937 #8-#10
9 April 1937 #4
10 April 1937 #1-#4
12 April 1937 #1
13 April 1937 #4 ... Late 1st-early 2nd c. A.D. |
West Chamber of Cistern System #2. This chamber filled earlier than the East Chamber. No stratification but at 3.80m. considerable pottery of the late 5th c. B.C., as in 60/ΛΗ cistern, presumably a portion ... First half of 3rd c. A.D. |
Cistern at 70/ΚΕ and channels. Part of same system as D 17:3 and D 17:5. It was set against a corner of the lowest foundation block. Thus one is forced to assume that enough of the wall remained at least ... Ca. 200-150 B.C. |
Unfinished well, south of the annex to the Poros Building, west of the Areopagus. The shaft was apparently never used as a well. The lower dumped filling contained a quantity of clean red clay, as if from ... Ca. 350-325 B.C. |
Cistern at the southeast foot of Kolonos Agoraios.
Nbp. 2369: Two chamber cisterns, 88/ΛΔ and 100/ΚΘ, united by a long straight passage running almost due N-S. A draw shaft at 95/ΚΘ is set just off the ... Use filling of late 4th-early 3rd c. B.C.
Accumulative fillings of late 3rd-early 2nd and late 1st c. B.C.
Upper dumped filling of 3rd c. A.D. |
A small concentration of pottery in lowest 1.80m., possibly a use fill. Three fills above, with little pottery, ranging from Hellenistic to late Roman in date. Coins:
26 February 1934 #4-#6
27 February ... 325-200 B.C. |
| Roman Bath, Herulian destruction debris in A3. The high proportion of vessels for eating suggests that this was not the actual bath fill but was probably dumped in from the ruined houses higher on the ... Second half of 3rd and into 4th c. A.D. |
Fillings in and to the north of Building A/Poros Building/Greek Building ("Strategeion"), the accumulation mostly a late archaic dump, but not deposited till near the middle of the century. Most of the ... First half of 5th c. to ca. 460-450 B.C. |
See I 870, a piece of which was found in disturbed red fill in Β' southeast of Tholos.
Although apparently from the same context as P 5339 (tins 24-26, undisturbed fill), P 5336-P 5338 are recorded from ... 27 February-8 April 1935 |
Primarily late Roman material but some scrappy early Roman. Coins:
5 March 1934 #1-#4
6 March 1934 #1-#3
7 March 1934 #1-#2
8 March 1934 #1-#4
9 March 1934 #1-#4
10 March 1934 #1 ... Ca. A.D. 350 dumped fill |
| This filling is the largest deposit of its time found in the Agora. It may be compared with H 6:5 and with N 7:3.
Dug in soft bedrock to a depth of 11.40m; footholds cut on opposite sides of the shaft ... Ca. 490-450 B.C. |
A well on the NW slope of the Areopagus; unfinished well-shaft dug to a depth of only 3.05m., and refilled with broken pottery and other debris. The shaft clearly was begun with the intention of digging ... Ca. 520-480 B.C. |
It was impossible to return to the digging of this well either in 1939 or 1940 [due to collapse of stereo] (nbp. 1432).
HAT compares pottery to that of Square Building fill. Coins
26 May 1939 #1 ... Second half of 4th c. B.C. |
| Second century B.C. fill with early 13th c. A.D. fill in mouth.
The Byzantine objects from the mouth are P 13713-P 13718, L 3585.
Lower fill contained bones of many infants and dogs.
The bones from this ... Mid-2nd c. B.C. |
Well on Slopes of Kolonos, apparently with two periods of active service. The earlier dating from ca. the turn of the era well down into the 1st c. A.D. Probable that the well was never cleaned out in ... POU Early to second half 1st c. A.D. |
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